Jennifer Carolan (New Schools Seed Fund) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education

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

🗓️ 5 November 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jennifer Carolan, managing director of the NewSchools Seed Fund, talks about the opportunities for technology companies interested in contributing to the changing landscape of education. In conversation with Stanford Engineering Consulting Associate Professor Steve Blank, Carolan discusses common mistakes of ed-tech founders and the need for engineers and consumer technologists in creating innovation in education.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
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0:17.0	So it is my pleasure to welcome Jennifer Carolyn to ETL today.
0:21.6	An experienced teacher and education researcher, Jennifer now serves as managing director of the New School Seed Fund,
0:27.6	which she co-founded to make investments in early-stage ed tech companies with a potential for big impact in K-12 education.
0:35.6	To lead us in exploring Jennifer's insights in this area and to discuss maybe what it
0:39.4	means to be part of a non-profit venture philanthropy fund, I'm also privileged to welcome
0:44.1	serial entrepreneur and our own Stanford Engineering Consulting Associate Professor, Steve
0:48.5	Blank.
0:49.0	Please help me welcome Jennifer and Steve up for ETL.
0:53.2	Hey, Jennifer.
0:58.8	Hey, Steve.
0:59.7	How are you?
1:01.2	Good.
1:02.0	Great.
1:02.6	Honor to be here.
1:03.7	So, Jennifer, we met a long time ago, and I thought maybe we'd start by you maybe telling everybody, how high were we when we met?
1:19.0	And some of you were going, what kind of question is that?
1:22.8	Do you remember how high we were?
1:25.1	We were at 11,000 feet.
1:27.0	We were at 11,000 feet. We were at 11,000 feet.
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