Paola Santana (GLASS) - Solving for Infrastructure

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A lawyer, public policy expert, and tech entrepreneur, Paola Santana is the founder and CEO of GLASS, a software ecosystem using artificial intelligence to power high-performing governments. Her work includes engaging with The White House, the United States Congress, the FAA, and NASA to enact regulatory frameworks for new transportation technologies, and developing public infrastructure projects in Latin America. Previously, she co-founded the autonomous drone pioneer Matternet. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Santana traces her unique path into entrepreneurship and shares her passion for solving difficult systemic challenges.

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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	Welcome YouTube community and Stanford community to this week's session of the
0:19.6	Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar. It is great to have you. I am Ravi Balani, a's session of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar.
0:21.7	It is great to have you.
0:23.0	I am Ravi Balani, a lecture in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:27.7	and the director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups.
0:31.7	I'd like to officially welcome you to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar, which is brought
0:35.4	to you by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in
0:38.4	Stanford School of Engineering and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial
0:43.7	Students. This week, we are delighted to welcome Paola Santana to ETL. Oftentimes, gang,
0:51.5	as you guys know, we have founders that come into ETL that are retrospectively reflecting on their careers in entrepreneurship.
0:59.1	It is rare for us to have a founder that is in the throes of the entrepreneurial journey itself, which is why we are so grateful to have Paola come in and share her experiences with us today.
1:09.6	Paola has built a reputation for being a founder of ambitious ventures.
1:15.6	These are ventures going after really deep change in areas that are oftentimes hard to attack markets
1:22.6	that are overlooked by classic Silicon Valley style startups.
1:26.6	She was the co-founder and COO of Matternet,
1:30.7	which really was one of the pioneers in commercializing drone technology. Matternet has raised
1:35.9	over $30 million from funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Boeing, and McKesson. And most recently,
1:42.0	Paola has been the co-founder and CEO of a new venture, Glass, which is a
1:46.9	software ecosystem that uses artificial intelligence to power high-performing governments.
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