Toby Corey (Stanford University) - The Zen of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.5 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the 1990s, Toby Corey co-founded the world’s largest web development company. Since then, he’s started other companies; held senior management positions at SolarCity, Tesla and most recently PlanGrid; and lectured in Stanford's Department of Management Science & Engineering. Now, he finds himself as concerned by social and environmental problems as with building companies. In response to global crises of climate change and inequality, he advises an approach that he calls “zentrepreneurship,” and articulates principles aimed at helping entrepreneurs integrate creativity and ambition with social and environmental consciousness.
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| 0:00.0 | Who you are defines how you build. |
| 0:06.7 | This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. |
| 0:10.6 | Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner. |
| 0:16.3 | On this episode, we have Toby Corey, president of global field operations at PlanGrid, |
| 0:22.1 | and the founder of Zentrepreneur Life, a community of innovators centered on 22 ethical principles |
| 0:28.0 | that integrate creativity and ambition with social and environmental consciousness. |
| 0:33.5 | Here's Toby. |
| 0:39.6 | Who knows what is entrepreneur is? |
| 0:42.4 | I think they know. |
| 0:44.9 | All right. |
| 0:45.8 | We're going to talk a little bit about what is |
| 0:47.0 | in today's discussion. |
| 0:49.6 | I want to open up with a little bit of a monologue here |
| 0:53.6 | and let you know that we're society and |
| 0:57.2 | humanities at a really interesting cusp or precipice of it's clear that we're not on a path |
| 1:03.2 | of sustainability and we're going to go in one of either two directions either down the path |
| 1:08.7 | of as Dr. Richard Leakey wrote in his book, The Sixth Extinction, |
| 1:12.5 | or we're going to completely reinvent every paradigm and move the world an entirely new direction, |
| 1:18.5 | big paradigm shift. |
| 1:19.4 | So we're going to talk about some really, really big concepts today. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm not going to get too deep. |
| 1:24.1 | We're going to share a little bit about quantum mechanics, its impact on human |
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