Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures) - A People-Centered Journey
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.5 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Elizabeth Weil is the founder and general partner at Scribble Ventures, the seed fund where builders from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, Instagram, and a16z channel their operator DNA into backing the next generation of AI‑native companies. In this conversation with Adjunct Lecturer Emily Ma, Weil shares the life lessons she’s learned over her career as an operator and investor, emphasizing the importance of connecting with others and planning activities for yourself outside of work.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at the Stanford School of Engineering, and published on eCorner by STVP. STVP empowers aspiring entrepreneurs to become global citizens who create and scale responsible innovations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you by Stanford E-Corner and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Emily Ma. I am an adjunct lecturer for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and your professor for the Entrepreneur Thought Leaders series. |
| 0:15.0 | And I am just so thrilled to be able to sit up here with my classmate from 20 some years ago. |
| 0:23.6 | We'll just round down to 20. How about that? |
| 0:25.6 | Elizabeth Wheel. |
| 0:26.6 | Elizabeth Weill. She is the first speaker we're going to have, who is both an operator and a venture capitalist. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm going to read your formal bio as an intro. And then we're going to dive into a bit of a fireside chat. |
| 0:39.3 | Where did this come from, chat, GPD? |
| 0:41.3 | Your assistant, your assistant. |
| 0:43.3 | I can't tell if it's artificial or human, |
| 0:47.3 | but this is what we were shared with your bio. |
| 0:52.3 | So Elizabeth Wheel is the founder and GP at Scribble Ventures, |
| 0:55.8 | the Seed Fund where builders from Open AI, |
| 0:58.0 | beta, Twitter, Instagram, and A16Z, Z, I'm Canadian, |
| 1:03.3 | channeled their operator DNA backing the next generation |
| 1:06.8 | of AI-native companies. |
| 1:08.6 | Founded in 2020 during the pandemic, wow. |
| 1:11.6 | Scribble has backed startups such as What Not Stoke, |
| 1:14.6 | Basentin, Basetan, Basin, |
| 1:16.6 | BAS, Periodic Labs, Hadrian, and Applied Comput, among others. |
| 1:20.6 | Elizabeth is an early Twitter executives, |
| 1:23.6 | as the company scaled from 50 to 3,000 people, so Twitter is now known as X. |
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