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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats. If you can’t see the Silknet 2-minute video, click here.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. He runs H4X Labs.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way. an optimist sees opportunity in every danger. Be an optimist.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team: Embargo NK. If you can’t see the EmbargoNK 2-minute video click here.

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

One of the more fun things I’ve been asked to do lately was give the commencement speech at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in June 2014. Here’s the speech: 2014 University of Chicago Commencement speech ‘Your Great Adventure’. Why Give a Commencement speech. So they call you a “dragon lady”; so what?!