Warren Packard (Thuuz) - Embrace Uncertainty

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

🗓️ 8 February 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Thuuz Co-Founder and CEO Warren Packard appreciates how uncertainty is a constant force in the lives of entrepreneurs. Sharing stories from his career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Packard captures how life is a series of decisions made without complete information. He also addresses how his current venture approaches issues of funding and strategic partnerships.

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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.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It is my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, Warren Packard.
0:23.6	Very interesting connections with Stanford, and you'll hear his story today, but he was a student here several times,
0:31.6	both in the engineering school and over in the MBA program. Some of you might have even been his freshman advisees,
0:40.3	because there's a few, I've been a freshman advisor for several years
0:43.3	and really enjoyed it, but for a few select people who are not professors,
0:50.3	like Warren, they're invited to join that program.
0:55.0	So he has been doing freshman advising for many years, many years, many years.
1:00.0	And that's a nice connection.
1:02.0	He's also, as you might imagine, given the nature of his company he's going to talk about a little bit today.
1:09.0	He's a big sports fan of Stanford's sports,
1:13.9	including football and basketball.
1:17.4	He's been really kind in working with STVP,
1:21.3	one of the sponsors of this series over the years.
1:24.0	I have to say, when I think of looking at the student feedback, who were people who had
1:29.6	participated in the Mayfield Fellows program, he's always one of the top VC mentors, because
1:35.6	each one of the Mayfield Fellows gets a VC mentor for the year, and they're always talking
1:39.9	about how wonderful Warren was to them when he was a venture capitalist. Because that's the other interesting connection here.
1:47.0	He was the venture capitalist for quite a few years,
1:50.0	with Draper Fisher-Gervinson.
1:52.0	So there's another connection.
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