Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

On this episode, we're joined by Heidi Roizen.

Heidi is a partner at Threshold Ventures,

where she serves on the boards of directors at Zooks, Planet, and Memphis Meets.

She's also on the advisory committee for the new Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.

Here's Heidi.

Thank you very much, Tom, and hello everybody. It's such a pleasure to be back to, back at ETL again.

Today I'm going to talk about the things I've observed that distinguish entrepreneurs who survive a

crisis from those who do not. My observations come from four decades in tech, including more than a

decade as a CEO and entrepreneur myself, and over 20 years

as a venture capitalist, including now, as a partner here at Threshold Ventures, where

I'm sitting right now by myself, because our office is closed, and where I and my partners

collectively work on about 50 active portfolio companies at this time. I serve on four boards of private companies at this

time and two public boards as well. I want to start by anchoring this moment in time with data,

in part because this is recorded and may be watched in the future. As of today, there are approximately

2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide.

In the U.S., about an hour ago, apparently we just hit the 30,000 mortality mark, 30,000

deaths in the United States.

In the last three weeks, 17 million U.S. citizens applied for unemployment benefits.

The vast majority of the United States is in some form of lockdown,

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