Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.5 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sanjit Biswas is the co-founder and CEO of Samsara, a global leader in allowing physical operations organizations to harness data, AI, and the Internet of Things. He started the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. In this presentation, Biswas tells the story of how he co-founded his first company as a graduate student and pivoted to a new industry to found Samsara, sharing advice for aspiring entrepreneurs on finding meaningful problems to solve, building a team, and running feedback loops to understand what customers need.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the entrepreneurial thought leader seminar at Stanford. |
| 0:19.0 | The entrepreneurial thought lem Leminars is the Stanford |
| 0:22.6 | seminar for aspiring entrepreneurs and it is brought to you by STVP, the Stanford Technology |
| 0:29.6 | Ventures Program and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. |
| 0:36.6 | I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management science and engineering department at Stanford. |
| 0:43.3 | And today, we are thrilled to have as our e-tail keynote, |
| 0:48.0 | Sanjit Biswas, the CEO and co-founder of Samsara. |
| 0:52.0 | How many people have heard of Samsara? |
| 0:55.1 | Okay. |
| 0:55.7 | Well, if you haven't, you're going to know more about it today. |
| 0:58.6 | Sumsara is a $20 billion publicly tradable company, |
| 1:01.9 | which is really transforming industries using the power of the Internet of Things or IOT. |
| 1:10.1 | Sangeet is continuing the tradition this quarter of the Stanford School of Engineering |
| 1:14.3 | Centennial, the 100-year celebration of the School of Engineering because he is truly |
| 1:20.0 | one of the School of Engineering's owns. |
| 1:22.3 | In fact, he literally took this class. |
| 1:24.5 | He was a student a little over 20 years ago. |
| 1:29.3 | He was in your seat. He graduated with the bachelor's in computer science and engineering. How many people are CS majors? |
| 1:34.3 | How many people are double E? |
| 1:36.3 | Okay, so Sangeet was literally in your seat. And in fact, even more than that, he's a graduate of the community around Stanford. |
| 1:43.3 | He grew up and went to high school nearby Stanford at Limbrook. |
| 1:47.8 | He graduates from Stanford with a bachelor's in computer systems engineering. |
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