Heidi Roizen (Threshold) - Adventures in Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Heidi Roizen, operating partner at Threshold (formerly DFJ), shares personal and professional truths learned from her career as an entrepreneur, investor, and educator. Among other topics, Roizen examines the need for resiliency, the importance of valuing relationships over transactions, and why ethics should never be compromised.

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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.standford.edu.
0:16.0	So today we have an incredible opportunity.
0:21.6	Heidi Roizen is joining us for our final entrepreneurial thought leader lecture of the year.
0:26.6	Heidi is an extremely experienced entrepreneur and venture capitalist and is an icon in Silicon Valley and is known all over the world for her amazing and remarkable work.
0:39.3	Today she's going to join us to talk about the insight she's had from all of her experiences.
0:43.3	Join me in welcoming Heidi.
0:45.3	Well, hi everybody.
0:49.3	It's really fun to be the very last thing. How many of you are graduating?
0:58.0	Okay, wow. Oh my god. So I really am like one of the last things before you in graduation.
1:05.0	I'm really excited about graduation. I'm going to put on the robe and march with you in my role as an adjunct here, and I'm very
1:14.1	excited to hear Bill and Melinda Gates speak as the commencement speakers. So it is an honor for me to be
1:19.6	here. I have had the benefit, I don't know if it's the benefit or the buildup of having been to about 50 ETLs myself.
1:29.3	And so as I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do today, I thought back on which
1:35.3	ETLs have been the most interesting to me personally.
1:38.3	And I decided the ones that were the most fun for me were the ones where a person really talked
1:42.3	about their early life, and particularly if they had gone to Stanford about things about Stanford and things
1:49.5	to think about either with Stanford itself or right after graduation and then tell their
1:55.0	lessons learned from their entrepreneurial experience. So that's what I decided to do.
2:00.1	And as Tina said, we're going to
2:01.7	spend about the next 40 minutes doing that, and then I'd be happy to do Q&A. So without further
2:06.8	ado, let me get going. As you'll see, I've been to Stanford four times, and I'm about to have a
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