Sean George (Invitae) - Experience is Your Reward

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

🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sean George, president and chief operating officer of genetics-information company Invitae, explains how the rewards of entrepreneurship come from facing the major challenges along the way. In this insightful talk, the serial entrepreneur also underscores the necessity of a team's focus on mission to see a venture through adversity.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	So it's my sincere pleasure to welcome you to the spring quarter for the series.
0:25.6	It's our first of eight coming up here in April and May, but we could not start with a better
0:30.6	speaker.
0:31.6	His name is Sean George.
0:32.6	He's the president and co-founder and COO of InVite.
0:36.6	Yeah, how many of you have ever heard of InVite before you looked at ETL?
0:40.6	Just a few?
0:41.5	Well, what's really cool is you will know it by the end of this hour.
0:45.1	They went public in February.
0:47.4	Yes, they went public.
0:48.4	And they're in the field of personalized medicine, which is just an absolute fascinating field. He's been there since
0:55.5	the very beginning. You know, I'm going to let him tell his story, but what I really like
1:01.4	about it, because I'm a UC Berkeley graduate. This is where you do, you're hissing.
1:08.4	It's always amazing. It's like a tire letting out. Let me try again. This is,
1:13.1	I'm, as a UC Berkeley graduate, thank it. It is particularly interesting to me to welcome
1:20.3	another UC grad, but no, he's really, he's not from Berkeley. He's really interesting. He went to
1:26.8	undergraduate at the LA campus.
1:30.5	He got a master's degree at the Santa Barbara campus.
1:33.9	He got his PhD at the Santa Cruz campus of UC.
1:37.7	So I hope he comes and gets a postdoc at Stanford.
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