Brent Constantz (Calera) - Following Your Startup Vision

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2011

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Calera founder Brent Constantz is an innovator who believes that successful entrepreneurs are the ones who follow through on their original vision. Drawing upon his deep background as a successful serial entrepreneur, Constantz shares his entrepreneurial experiences and discusses many of the competitive and strategic issues facing his current ventures.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	Today we have a really remarkable speaker.
0:22.1	We have Brent Constance, who is an amazing inventor entrepreneur.
0:28.1	His specialty is something we've never had discussed here before.
0:32.1	He is a specialist in cement and has over 60 patents related to cement.
0:38.3	Now you might think that this isn't particularly interesting,
0:41.3	but it is absolutely fascinating.
0:43.3	In fact, he has started several companies in all different areas
0:47.3	related to cement, including now a news company related to water desalinization,
0:53.3	medical cement for bones in the operating room,
0:57.3	and most recently, Calera, where they look at carbon sequestration in cement.
1:03.3	He's going to tell us all sorts of stories and insights about being an inventor and an entrepreneur,
1:08.1	and I can't wait. Without further ado, Brent. Thanks, Tina. Usually when I give
1:18.6	a talk, I have technical slides and I'm talking about one company or one project I'm working on.
1:24.6	And this is a real treat for me. Tina asked me, you know, instead of showing us
1:28.3	all the science, why don't you describe your entrepreneurial experiences that you've had? Because that
1:34.4	would mean the most to the students here to hear the different experiences I've been through. So
1:39.8	what I'm going to do is go through my last four companies that I founded and was the CEO of
1:46.6	and talk about a lot of similarities in some of the entrepreneurial strategies that I took
1:52.2	and what worked and some of the implications of that.
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