Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.4 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Clara Shih is CEO of Salesforce AI, the world’s most trusted enterprise AI for customer relationship management. A digital pioneer, Shih has been named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, TIME’s Most Influential People in AI, and the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. She is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and serves as executive chair of Hearsay Systems, a privately held digital software firm she founded in 2009. In this presentation, Shih shares unconventional advice for finding professional and personal success as an entrepreneur.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader series, brought to you by Stanford E-Corps. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome everyone to the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader lecture series. |
| 0:11.0 | It is brought to you every single week by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, |
| 0:16.0 | which is the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, as well as BASIS, the Business Association |
| 0:21.8 | of Stanford Entrepreneurals Students. My name is Tina Seleig and I am executive director |
| 0:27.4 | of Knight-Hennessee Scholars. But before that, I was faculty director of STVP and taught this class |
| 0:36.5 | for 20 years. |
| 0:38.3 | So this is an amazing opportunity to be back here today |
| 0:42.3 | and a very, very, very special opportunity |
| 0:45.3 | to be introducing Clara Shai. |
| 0:47.3 | Because Clara was a student in this class |
| 0:51.3 | and she was a Mayfield fellow 20 years ago. |
| 0:55.0 | Amazing, I wish I'd been able to tell you 20 years from now, |
| 0:58.0 | you're gonna be standing right up here. |
| 1:00.0 | I can tell you, Clara is a force of nature. |
| 1:03.0 | I wish that when she was a student, I had followed my instincts |
| 1:07.0 | because I thought, I want stock in this lady. |
| 1:10.0 | She is something amazing. Clara is the |
| 1:13.6 | CEO, I want to get it right, of Salesforce AI, which makes Enterprise AI for customer relationship |
| 1:21.6 | management. She has so many accomplishments and has been recognized in so many ways. |
| 1:28.5 | For example, Clara has been on Fortune's most powerful |
| 1:32.9 | women entrepreneurs list, times most influential people |
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