Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneural Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

On this episode, we're joined by Stephanie Lampkin.

Stephanie is the founder and CEO of Blendor, which creates enterprise software that helps

companies mitigate unconscious bias in hiring.

Here's host and Stanford lecturer Emily Ma.

Today I am delighted to welcome Stephanie Lampkin to ETL.

Before we dive into a Farside Chat, I was hoping that you could give us an overview of

Blundor for those of us who may not know what it is. Absolutely. Thank you everyone for having me.

It's really great to be here. I was in your seats 15 or so years ago. And this was actually

when BAS's first got started. Obviously, not actually

in your seats. I was on Stanford campus. But it's really excited to be on the other side of the

table. So as mentioned, I am the CEO and founder of Vendor. I just going to kind of take you through

the journey of the company and what we've done and what we're doing and what's coming next.

So I started coding actually really early. Here's a picture of me at a hackathon as a teenager

before. It was really called a hackathon. I've been coding since I was 13 and took AP computer

science in high school and did a lot of software engineering work throughout college.

So as mentioned, I went to Stanford undergrad, MIT for grad school, and worked for like a Fortune 500 company for the most part all throughout undergrad, landed a job at Microsoft and did some work at TripAdvisor.

But about six months after I graduated

from MIT, I interviewed for an analytical lead job at a very well-known Silicon Valley company,

and they told me not qualified. So it was the first time in my life as a ridiculous overachiever,

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