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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Armen Berjikly (Experience Project) - Connecting Common Experiences

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5740 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2007

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Armen Berjikly, the Founder and CEO of The Experience Project, and Julio Vasconcellos, VP of Business Development discuss their experience of building a technology start-up that unites people who can improve each other's lives. Berjikly discusses how he built his new venture from fund raising to establishing the company infrastructure. He talks about the importance of hiring the right people to work in a start-up and illustrates the key role of a "Mentor Capitalist" in the journey of an entrepreneur. Berjikly also describes the financial and psychological challenges an entrepreneur faces while building a company.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You were listening to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the

0:07.3

Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

0:10.0

You can find podcasts and video clips of these lectures online at edcorner.standford.edu.

0:19.6

What I'd like to do is welcome to entrepreneurs who are alumni of Stanford and who are

0:27.6

entrepreneurs who really have got a project that I think is one of the coolest things happening

0:31.7

on the internet.

0:32.7

It's called the Experience Project.

0:34.4

Now Armin, who is the founder, is a Mayfield fellow.

0:38.1

He's an alum of Stanford and a very wonderful guy.

0:41.3

He even took my marketing class and survived.

0:45.3

And the success of the Experience Project has nothing to do with the fact that he took Global Entrepreneurial Marketing.

0:50.3

We're glad you took it, and we're glad you're back.

0:52.3

In addition to Armin, employee number two of

0:55.5

the experience project is another Stanford grad. Julio, if you look at his background, you'll

1:00.7

see that he's quite a global citizen. He's worked in various parts of the world. He got

1:06.1

his undergraduate degree at Penn at a wonderful program that they got there went to monitor

1:11.3

and then came to Stanford to the Graduate School of Business and then was doing some

1:14.4

entrepreneurial things before meeting Armand so Julian Armin I hope one of the things

1:19.4

you do as you kick off is explain how you two guys met that's all always fun and I'm

1:25.0

going to get off the stage and let you all take it away.

1:27.9

Giulio will be interviewing Armin as part of this, and we're delighted to have you here.

1:31.9

So welcome back to Stanford, both of you.

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