Sandy Jen (Honor) - The Rewards of Taking Risks

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

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Entrepreneur Sandy Jen has lived with self-doubt and insecurities throughout her life: in college, at her first startup, and later as a working mother. But facing the risks she feared each time gave her confidence that a shy, little girl from the suburbs can grow up to improve people's lives through technology and a passion for impact. She co-founded the senior-care startup Honor, and this is her story.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to 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.
0:17.2	On today's episode, we have Sandy Jen, the co-founder of Honor, a senior care service that
0:22.4	helps people continue to live well and independently at home. Prior to Honor, Sandy was
0:27.6	co-founder and CTO of Meebo, an instant messaging and social networking service provider that
0:33.6	helped consumers and publishers connect socially. She holds a degree in computer science from Stanford University.
0:39.3	Here is Sandy.
0:41.3	Hi everyone.
0:44.3	First off, I just want to know who's here.
0:46.3	So how many of you are undergrads?
0:48.3	Okay, almost all of you.
0:50.3	Freshman?
0:52.3	Wow, okay. Sophomores, junior, seniors.
0:57.0	Okay, and how many of you were sort of thinking about becoming an entrepreneur,
1:00.5	starting a company, kind of getting into all that?
1:03.3	Okay, cool, okay.
1:04.7	So thanks for having me.
1:06.3	It's really nice to be back at Stanford.
1:07.8	As Tom said, I graduated over a decade ago, so it's been a long time.
1:11.8	This building was not here. You guys are really lucky. It's really nice. And it's not every day
1:18.0	that I get invited to speak for 45 minutes about myself. It's a weird thing to happen to you.
1:24.9	And student habits die hard, so I procrastinated and didn't really prep for this talk until about last night.
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