Steven McCormick (Moore Foundation) - Drive Change Through Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2013

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Steven McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses the value and continued need of an entrepreneurial approach in the philanthropic sector. McCormick also shares lessons learned on staying obsessively focused on outcomes, the critical need to measure success, and how to create change by being a 'positive deviant' inside organizations.

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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.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.2	How privileged I feel to introduce Steve McCormick.
0:21.6	I was introduced to him by my brother Brooke, and I was just blown away seeing him talk about social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
0:33.6	He spent the last six years at the Moore Foundation, which I hope we get to hear more about,
0:41.3	a bad pun, sorry about that, but that's one of the top foundations or charities here in the United States,
0:49.3	but it has incredible global reach. Six years before that, he was the leader of one of my favorite
0:57.0	environmental groups, the Nature Conservancy. I can never say that properly. It's a ton
1:02.2	twister in Washington, D.C. But as usual, the bios are up on the web. We don't do a long
1:10.2	and extended intro.
1:11.2	But I have to acknowledge, with my own three degrees
1:14.2	from Berkeley, that he is a multi-degree person
1:18.9	from UC Berkeley.
1:19.9	So I thought I'd warm the crowd up by,
1:21.7	he said, give me a C.
1:23.5	See.
1:24.7	We got another one.
1:26.3	Give an A.
1:27.4	Hey. And I know you're going to do, give me an L.
1:30.3	Okay, go bears. That's all I want to say. So, no, let's give this guy a warm Sanford welcome.
1:36.6	All right.
1:41.9	Thank you very, very, very much.
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