Daphne Koller (insitro) - Innovation in Ed-Tech and Biotech

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

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Daphne Koller is the CEO and founder of insitro, a machine learning-enabled drug discovery company. Previously, she was a professor of computer science at Stanford University for 18 years, co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, and the Chief Computing Officer of Calico, an Alphabet company in the healthcare space. She received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Koller examines the key turning points in her diverse and innovative career, and speaks about how she searched for the opportunities that would have the greatest impact on the world.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build. This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:14.6	Welcome Stanford and YouTube communities to the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar.
0:19.5	I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the
0:21.9	management science and engineering department at Stanford, and the director of alchemists, an
0:25.9	accelerator for enterprise startups. And I'd like to welcome you officially to ETL. ETL is presented
0:31.4	to you by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering at Stanford, and Basis, the
0:36.9	Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. Today, we are very honored to have Daphne Kohler to ETL.
0:45.4	Few people I know are as accomplished in both breadth and depth across academia and entrepreneurship as Daphne Kohler.
0:54.4	Daphne got her bachelor's and her master's degree in computer science in Israel.
0:58.5	And Daphne is another example of how America is a beneficiary of amazing Israeli-trained
1:04.1	engineering talent.
1:06.0	Daphne then came to the farm to Stanford to get her Ph.D. in computer science. She did a small postdoc in
1:13.1	computer science at Berserkley and then came back to the farm where she was a professor in
1:18.9	computer science for 18 years. And not only was she a professor in computer science, she was
1:25.1	highly, highly distinguished. She was published in the top journals.
1:29.2	She was inducted into the American Academy of Engineering, and she even won the prestigious
1:34.0	MacArthur Fellowship, which is oftentimes known as the Genius Grant. And yet in the midst of
1:41.5	having such an illustrious academic career in computer science at Stanford,
1:46.1	in her 40s, 18 years into being a professor at Stanford, the entrepreneurial bug bit Daphne.
1:53.0	And Daphne in 2012 started and was the co-founder and the co-CEO of Coursera, which is one of the darling ed tech companies that has
2:04.1	been created in the last decade. Coursera, by the way, IPOed earlier this year and is now
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