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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Phil Libin (Evernote) - No Exit Strategy for Your Life's Work

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

4.5740 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2011

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Thoughts and influences from early life continue to shape how Evernote CEO Phil Libin embraces his work. In this wide-ranging presentation, Libin shares key beliefs and provocative insights on startups, acquisitions and company exits. Based on his experiences leading multiple ventures from startup to commercial success, Libin urges entrepreneurs to chase dreams they would actually want to spend their life pursuing.

Transcript

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You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly

0:07.0

by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures

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online at eCORner.standford.edu.

0:18.0

It brings me great pleasure to welcome to Stanford, Phil Lieben.

0:23.5

Phil is a serial entrepreneur.

0:25.2

This is his third software company.

0:28.2

And a number of you are Evernote users.

0:30.6

And those of you who are not Evernote users probably will be by tomorrow.

0:35.4

Because it's a really cool product that I've been learning about prior to the talk.

0:40.3

So Phil, we're delighted to have you here at Stanford come and take the stage.

0:43.3

Let's welcome Phil.

0:44.3

Thank you.

0:49.3

Thank you so much.

0:53.3

One of the things we made Evernote 4 was as an easy way to capture all of the most memorable moments in your life.

1:01.5

So if you guys just hold on one sec.

1:06.1

And now I remember this, which is pretty cool.

1:10.4

I actually did this little bit with, you know, And now I remember this, which is pretty cool.

1:12.6

I actually did this little bit with taking a picture of a crowd with a cell phone.

1:17.9

It kind of was a gag for the first time.

1:19.0

It was my very first press conference.

1:20.9

We were in Japan and we didn't do press conferences before, but I guess in Japan they still

1:24.4

do them.

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