Maëlle Gavet (Techstars) - Ruthless Empathy

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Maëlle Gavet is the CEO of Techstars and the author of Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It (Wiley, 2020). In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Toby Corey, she explores how to deploy “ruthless empathy” in tech by combining big ambitions and cutting-edge ideas with a deep respect for other people.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneural Thought Leaders series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.
0:13.0	Today, I am super, super stoked to welcome Mile to ETL.
0:19.0	Mile is the CEO of Tech Stars and the author of a really,
0:24.0	really intriguing great read called Trampled by Unicorns, Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix
0:29.2	It, Wiley, 2020. Now, she founded her first business at 16 and then went on to start two other
0:36.2	companies. She's been a senior executive at
0:39.2	numerous, very large tech companies around the world, including Ozum, the price line, and
0:44.2	Compass. Gavet has appeared on Fortune's 40 under 40 list and Time Magazine's list of 25
0:50.5	top female techpreneurs. And she's been named a young global leader by the World Economic Forum.
0:57.5	And not only one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company,
1:02.0	he's also one of the most competitive people on the planet.
1:04.8	So, Mile, let me welcome you.
1:06.2	Welcome to ETL 472.
1:08.5	Hi there.
1:09.4	Very happy to be here.
1:10.6	But before we get into tech stars in your own career, I want to talk about this really
1:15.5	incredible book that you just published, which is called Trampled by Unicorns.
1:21.3	And it's very critical of the impact the biggest tech companies are having on our society.
1:26.1	We're all seeing it in every corner of planet Earth here. But you also are leading a major tech accelerator. So you're
1:33.7	obviously not anti-technology, but can you start off by talking about what most excites you
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