Laurene Powell Jobs (Emerson Collective) - Injecting Innovation into Intractable Systems

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Laurene Powell Jobs, in conversation with Stanford Engineering Professor Tom Byers, shares her path to entrepreneurship and her strong commitment to addressing massive challenges in education and immigration reform through College Track and Emerson Collective, organizations she founded to spark systemic change and improve lives at the individual 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.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.3	So I am Tom Byers, and I have the distinct pleasure of having a conversation with a,
0:25.6	with, I am proud to see a friend of mine.
0:28.6	Lorraine Powell Jobs.
0:30.6	Welcome her, please.
0:31.6	Thank you.
0:33.6	Thank you. Our paths have crossed and she was kind enough to accept my invitation last fall to do this.
0:45.8	So here we are.
0:46.8	At the time March seemed very far away, so it was easy to say yes.
0:52.3	Well, she, what's really interesting is I went up on the web and I started looking around
0:56.3	saying, well, you know, I'll see what her style is and stuff like that.
0:59.7	Because we've made this decision to do a conversation rather than a town hall format, which
1:03.5	many of you are accustomed to here.
1:06.7	And I found you did most of the interviews.
1:09.2	You do mostly interviewing, not interview.
1:11.6	So I decided you'd interview me today.
1:15.4	Okay.
1:16.2	So I was born in Atlanta.
1:20.7	Are you going to be disappointed if this really happens?
1:25.4	No, Eli's not.
1:26.7	He's smiling with the headphones. He would really like it.
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