Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn) - What is the Next Big Thing?

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2009

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Three Silicon Valley dealmakers - Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn; Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper, Fisher Jurvetson; and Michael Moe, Founding Partner of ThinkEquity - discuss the evolutions in online media, the power of partnerships, and other next-generation opportunities for the global marketplace.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:09.8	You can find podcasts and video clips of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.8	Today we have a fabulous panel, and I'm going to introduce them all, and then we have Tony Perkins,
0:24.9	who's going to be leading the discussion.
0:26.1	But let me give you a little bit of an insight of who we have up here and how lucky we are
0:30.0	today.
0:31.0	So Tim Draper, and of course I mentioned, this is the DFJ or Draper-Fisher-Jervitsen, Entrel Thoughtlyer
0:36.6	Lecture Series. So the first thing I need to speak is when I sponsor him.
0:41.3	Well, you know what? We keep begging you to show up and hopefully you'll come back again.
0:48.3	Tim is really remarkable. He is the managing director of Draper Fisher-Jervitson, and he is known as the father of viral
0:56.0	marketing.
0:57.0	Way back, what year was it when Hotmail started?
0:59.5	95.
1:00.5	95.
1:01.5	Came up with the idea of putting little messages at the bottom of the emails to essentially
1:05.4	spread a message in a really viral way.
1:07.2	And of course, that's something we now take for granted all the time.
1:10.4	Tim also launched the DFJ Global Network, which is an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in at least 30 different countries around the world.
1:20.6	He is the founder of BizWorld, and if you don't know about BizWorld, it's a program that teaches entrepreneurship to kids.
1:25.6	I've had the pleasure of teaching it for many years, and it's just terrific.
1:30.3	He has a degree from Stanford in EE and also a Harvard MBA.
1:34.3	And I love the fact that he was named an always-on-one
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