Tom Conrad (Pandora) - A Pandora's Box of Start-up Expertise

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

🗓️ 28 April 2010

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

After nearly two decades in the trenches of Pets.com, Apple Computer, and the You Don't Know Jack game series at Berkeley Systems, Tom Conrad (Pandora CTO) shares his acquired wisdom on succeeding in the consumer internet space. He discusses agility, crisp decision making, and focus, and peppers his lessons with numerous entertaining anecdotes of dot-com days and corporate progress.

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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.
0:18.4	Today we have Tom Conrad with us.
0:20.9	He is here from Pandora.
0:22.5	He's been at Pandora for many years, actually, since 2004,
0:26.2	and he's the chief technology officer.
0:28.7	Now, you might wonder what that means.
0:30.4	He is in charge of product management, user interface design, software development, and network operations.
0:37.4	And before being at Pandora, Tom was a VP of Engineering at Kenamea,
0:42.1	and he also worked at Berkeley Systems.
0:44.0	In fact, some of you might have played with one of the games he was involved with.
0:47.1	You don't know Jack.
0:48.5	Before that, he was at Relevance Technologies at Documentum.
0:51.9	And you probably remember Pets.com and Apple.
0:54.9	These are all on his resume.
0:56.3	So he's got a fabulous story to share with us today.
0:58.5	Welcome, Tom.
1:04.0	Thank you so much.
1:05.0	I think I've got to do something here to...
1:10.0	Hey, look at that.
1:12.8	Thank you so much, Tina.
1:13.8	Thank you for inviting me.
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