William Hsu (MuckerLab) - Moving from Hubris to Confidence

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 29 January 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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MuckerLab Co-Founder William Hsu shares his professional journey from young, headstrong entrepreneur to experienced leader working to support a thriving startup environment in Los Angeles. Hsu focuses on why building a company is different than starting a company, the importance of getting as many "at-bats" as possible, and the immense value of a pay-it-forward culture.

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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.
0:18.3	Today we have a very special speaker, and it's my pleasure to introduce William Sue as our Entryl
0:24.3	Thought Leader speaker today. He has his BS in industrial engineering from Stanford and an MBA from
0:30.8	Wharton. As a 23-year-old, just a year after he graduated from Stanford, he founded and was
0:37.3	the executive vice president
0:38.9	of product development at BuildPoint.
0:41.1	He helped build the company to over 250 people
0:44.1	and raised over $50 million in VC.
0:47.3	Later, he served as a senior VP and chief product officer
0:51.4	at AT&T Interactive, which is a Fortune 100 company where he doubled
0:56.0	the revenue of that venture. William recently co-founded Mucker Lab, which supports tech
1:02.5	startups and aims to accelerate the tech entrepreneurship ecosystem in Los Angeles. Today, William
1:08.7	will share his professional journey with us and tell us about his work
1:12.1	at Mucker Labs. Please join me in welcoming him back to Stanford.
1:17.9	Thank you. Thank you all. I can't believe people actually came and actually listened to me.
1:28.3	It wasn't really that long ago, at least in my head, actually mathematically it's almost 20 years since
1:32.8	I was in this particular class, but actually in term, but that doesn't exist anymore.
1:38.7	Taking this class and taking classes from Professor Kosnick, so Stanford has quite a bit of impact in my career, especially the engineering school, the
1:49.0	industrial engineering major, and the professor that I work with here at Stanford.
1:57.0	I want to give you guys a little bit about my personal background. My belief is that the dots kind of creates a picture eventually,
2:05.2	and the personal part of who I am is much more important than the professional part of me.
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