John Felts (Cruz Foam) - Engineering Green Materials

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

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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John Felts is the co-founder and CEO of Cruz Foam, which produces bio-benign foam and eco-friendly alternative packaging solutions that power key industry leaders to be the catalyst for a cleaner environment. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Toby Corey, Felts shares how his engineering studies and career led him to launching a startup, and offers advice for new tech entrepreneurs learning how to pitch to investors and build scalable solutions.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.8	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:14.3	Hello, Stanford community, students around the world and all those interested in phenomenal
0:19.7	entrepreneurship. I'm Toby Corey, and I'd like to welcome you to Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:24.8	It's presented by STVP, and that's the Entrepreneurship Center in Stanford School of Engineering
0:30.2	and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:35.9	Today, I'm not only delighted. I'm super excited to welcome
0:39.8	an amazingly talented entrepreneur who's tackling some of our biggest challenges. John Feltz
0:46.3	to ETL. Let me tell you a little about John. John is the co-founder and CEO of Cruz foam.
0:52.0	And CruzFone produces a bio-benying foam an eco-friendly EPS and EPE, that's
0:56.6	expanded polystyrene, expanded polyethylene, alternative solutions that power key industry leaders
1:01.9	to be a catalyst for a cleaner environment. John holds a BS in chemical engineering from UC Santa Barbara
1:09.3	and an MS in materials engineering from the University
1:12.6	of Washington. He co-founded cruise foam in 2017 with the mission of saving our oceans and helping
1:19.0	end the global epidemic of plastic pollution. Before I welcome, John, he's got a couple slides,
1:25.6	which will give you a good overview, and then we're going to jump in and do a live fireside chat and dive more deeply into it.
1:31.6	So, John, welcome to ETL.
1:33.0	Tell us about cruise phone.
1:35.0	No, awesome.
1:36.0	Thanks, Toby.
1:36.5	Great intro and really, really excited to be part of the conversation and have this opportunity.
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