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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Deborah Hopkins (Citi) - Talking About a Revolution

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

🗓️ 18 January 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Citi Chief Innovation Officer Deborah Hopkins believes now is an incredible time for new companies due to the pace of cultural and technological change. As the head of Citi Ventures, Hopkins leads the banking firm's efforts to invest in companies delivering disruptive technology products. Hopkins shares rules for revolutionary entrepreneurs and describes how Citi's initiatives are shaped by empathy for customers and a commitment to sharing new ideas.

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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.

0:10.3

You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.

0:19.0

I am absolutely delighted to be here.

0:21.8

As Tina said, moved here almost actually two years ago.

0:25.3

And I'm going to tell you a little bit about that story.

0:27.8

But we are passionate about being part of this campus

0:31.6

and being involved in what you are all doing and studying

0:34.8

and being coaches and being involved.

0:38.1

It is really the whole STVP program is just amazing.

0:43.0

Got to participate on the board last Friday and all the things that are going on here

0:47.6

just really are going to enrich your lives in a very, very broad way.

0:50.8

It's quite exciting.

0:51.8

So what I really wanted to share with you today is a little

0:55.0

bit of thinking about talking about a revolution. And frankly, I think this is very big.

1:04.0

And you might say, well, gee, this is a bank and you're talking about a revolution. And I am.

1:09.0

And I believe it. And I want to take you through that.

1:12.7

But, you know, kind of the beginning of this revolution, and every time I look at this picture, I absolutely go into hysterics because I'm sure many of you have been on Wall Street and seen the famous charging bull.

1:24.4

Well, a group that's called the Yarn Bomb decided to knit a cover for the raging ball.

1:31.3

And I think, you know, maybe it's the softer side of Wall Street.

1:35.3

I don't know, but you really have to want to have been there when the bankers showed up and went,

1:41.3

oh my lord, how am I going to get this off before the boss shows up? But

1:45.9

it is kind of a fun way and a little way to think about design in a different way. So,

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