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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Anna Piñol, partner at NFX, takes us on a candid journey from expanding Amazon in Spain to founding Jupiter and ultimately discovering her true calling in venture capital. She shares powerful reflections on finding alignment, navigating pivots, and riding the waves of technological change, most notably, the rise of AI. Anna’s insights are grounded in personal transformation and professional resilience, urging us to choose curiosity over convention and to build with intention in an age when we can infinitely leverage technology. Whether you're an aspiring founder, builder, or investor, Her story offers both a mirror and a roadmap.
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Mandy and I'm the course assistant for Amasini 472. |
0:18.0 | And I'd like to welcome you to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series |
0:24.6 | presented by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, |
0:27.6 | the STVP and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. |
0:32.6 | Today I am delighted to welcome Anna Pignoll to ETL. |
0:36.6 | Anna is a partner at NFX, investing in the AI applications, |
0:41.3 | transforming how we work, live and play. |
0:44.3 | She is a former founder and operator with deep experience in marketplaces and AI |
0:49.3 | and one of the current leading experts in AI agents. |
0:53.3 | Anna began her career at Amazon, where she helped launch Amazon in Spain in 2013, |
0:59.0 | and became one of the youngest managers in Europe. |
1:02.0 | After earning her MBA at Stanford and co-founding Jupiter, she joined NFX's investment team. |
1:08.0 | Originally from Barcelona, her journey as an immigrant founder shapes her belief that |
1:12.6 | building a startup is as much about personal transformation as company success. Thank you so much |
1:17.6 | for being with us today, Anna. |
1:19.6 | Thank you, Mandy. This is working. Well, hi everyone. I just learned this is the last class of the year. What an honor to be here. |
1:34.3 | So who is about to graduate this year? Well, many of you. And who here is thinking of going, like starting a company? |
1:47.1 | Joining a startup? |
1:50.2 | Okay. |
1:51.4 | Anyone thinking of going into VC? |
1:54.7 | Awesome. |
1:58.1 | So there are many possible career paths, and thinking what's next is probably top of mind. |
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