Lewis Cirne (New Relic) - Life is Too Short for Bad Software

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

🗓️ 29 October 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Lew Cirne, founder and CEO of New Relic, discusses his experiences as a serial entrepreneur, in conversation with Stanford Engineering Professor Tom Byers. Cirne talks about finding one's strengths as a leader, the challenge of discovering a company's second act, and why the best engineers must possess real empathy for the users of their products.

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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.
0:18.1	It's my sincere pleasure to introduce Lou Serny.
0:22.6	And on his insistence, we're doing a Q&A today to start the seminar.
0:30.6	And then the two of us, he's going to ask me questions.
0:35.6	No, I have the honor of asking him questions, and we'll do that for about half the time,
0:40.7	and then the last half we'll do our traditional Q&A with the audience.
0:44.7	But hey, look.
0:46.5	Welcome.
0:47.4	Thank you.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:48.8	You have been to several of our classes, which we greatly appreciate, but we've never done this before.
0:54.8	Yeah, it's been an honor to have a chance to come and cover a case study that you do very
1:01.0	well here on entrepreneurship, and I've always enjoyed it. I've been super impressed with the people
1:06.5	and the questions that have come up in these classes. Well, let's get started by just talking a little bit about how you got, you know, not how you got here today, but, you know, how you got to this place in your life.
1:18.4	So you went to, you grew up in Canada?
1:22.0	Yep, now I used to Toronto.
1:23.5	And where did you go to school?
1:25.0	Went to school called Dartmouth College.
1:26.9	Yeah.
1:27.4	It's an awesome school. Anybody know Dartmouth? Somebody? Went to school called Dartmouth College. Yeah.
1:28.3	It's an awesome school.
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