Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Venture Fund) - Creating Your Own Canvas

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

🗓️ 11 November 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Rebecca Lynn, partner and founder at Canvas Ventures, shares her unlikely journey from the humble farming town of her childhood to the hotbed of technology innovation, fueled by engineering talent, entrepreneurial drive and solid guidance from mentors. Lynn describes her strategy for investing and observations about the world of venture capital.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
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0:17.0	Well, it's my pleasure to introduce our speaker today.
0:22.6	Rebecca Lynn is a partner at Canvas Ventures.
0:27.6	It's a relatively new firm, but with roots and a wonderful firm that's been around for a long, long time, Morgan Thaler Ventures.
0:34.6	But Canvas is red hot.
0:36.6	Forbes just announced it as one of the VC firms
0:40.3	to watch this year. Rebecca was a co-founder and as I said, a partner at Canvas. Last year, it was one of her investments that was the
0:50.3	largest IPO in 2014. That, that was the lending club.
0:56.1	And a whole host of other successes has made her really quite compelling, successful.
1:03.6	And of course, that's what we like at ETL.
1:05.8	So the fact that she went to Berkeley is okay, with me especially since I went to Berkeley as well.
1:15.6	But she has a JD and MBA from Cal.
1:19.6	But what I also like is that she was a chemical engineer at the University of Missouri previously.
1:26.6	So let's give her a big Stanford welcome.
1:30.3	Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
1:34.3	Thank you, Tom. So first of all, it's really an honor to be here tonight. I made a mistake when I said, yeah, sure, I would do this.
1:42.3	And I said, hey, could you send me some exemplarars of some really great talks you've had in your past?
1:46.6	And so they did, of course.
1:48.5	And they sent me Melinda Gates and Bill Gross and Reid Hoffman.
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