David Friedberg (The Climate Corporation) - Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning

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

🗓️ 5 October 2011

⏱️ 61 minutes

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David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill), discusses the startup process and the challenges faced during the development of his innovative technology company that is changing the insurance sector. Friedberg explores essential components in the entrepreneurial experience, including the need to solve real problems, making meaningful impact, and the value of embracing the grind required in reaching success.

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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.
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0:17.0	It is my sincere pleasure to welcome our speaker today, our very first speaker of the
0:24.8	quarter.
0:25.8	David Friedberg is a very interesting man.
0:29.1	He is the founder and the CEO of Weather Bill, but he's also had a very unusual past.
0:35.8	And that's one of the reasons we invited him, not just for
0:38.1	what he's doing now, but all of the interesting things he's done before. He was at Google,
0:42.8	where he was on the, one of the founding members of Google's corporate development team and
0:46.6	led several very high profile acquisitions. He spent several years in private equity and investment
0:52.6	banking. He was a mathematical programmer at Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
0:57.6	And you know what?
0:58.2	When he was your age, he was studying astrophysics.
1:01.5	So he has taken a very circuitous path, now running
1:04.5	Weather Bill that does something quite interesting,
1:07.6	focusing on weather insurance.
1:10.8	Now, the first question I want to ask him is,
1:13.0	did you predict the weather for today?
1:14.9	Oh, I miss that one.
1:16.7	Anyway, without further ado, David.
1:18.9	Thank you.
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