Kate Mitchell (Scale Venture Partners) - Own Your Own Success

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

🗓️ 1 May 2013

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kate Mitchell, managing director of Scale Venture Partners, demonstrates why an optimistic, but realistic mindset is a central key for successful entrepreneurs. Mitchell also challenges entrepreneurs to play an active role in civic life by actively telling their stories to affect policy at the national and international level.

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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	It gives me great pleasure to welcome Kate Mitchell to Stanford.
0:22.1	This is the first time that I've met Kate, and she may talk about the other Kate or may not.
0:27.2	Since 1996, Kate is, you were the co-founder and the managing partner of Scale Ventures,
0:33.6	and you've invested in a really wide array of very interesting companies during that time.
0:39.3	Kate also has been the chairman and is on the board of the National Venture Capitalist Association,
0:45.3	very important venture capital association.
0:48.3	And last year, Kate helped to put a bill through Congress that had to do with the Startup Jobs Act.
0:57.0	And it's a great example of how somebody who's an active business leader, an investor, and entrepreneur can really make a difference in Washington, D.C.
1:05.0	if she puts your mind to it. So, Kate, thank you so much for all of that, and welcome to Stanford.
1:10.0	Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for all of that. And welcome to Stanford. Thank you. Thank you.
1:11.6	Thank you, Tom.
1:14.6	Well, thank you all for having me and having me back.
1:17.6	I am an alum of Stanford, and because I have a fellow classmate in the audience, I'll confess I'm the class of 80.
1:24.6	So that was some time ago.
1:26.6	And it's really a treat in life to be able to come back
1:31.3	to where you started and not to be sitting there, but actually to be standing here. So it's a real,
1:37.3	it's a real treat for me. And it's a real treat to be speaking here because working in Silicon Valley,
1:43.3	STVP bases, you know, what you guys do
1:46.8	is very well known throughout our community.
1:50.1	So we talk a lot about what's happening here.
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