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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Clara Shih - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Clara Shih is the CEO of Salesforce AI and has received recognition as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and TIME’s Most Influential People in AI. In this episode, she emphasizes the importance of maintaining pre-existing friendships for mental health and support during her entrepreneurial journey at Hearsay Systems, particularly when her time for developing new relationships was limited. The STVP Mayfield Fellow alum reminds us that as our companies scale, so does our role as a leader. 


This talk first aired on March 6, 2024

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0:00.0

This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader series, brought to you by Stanford E-Corps.

0:07.0

Welcome everyone to the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader lecture series.

0:11.0

It is brought to you every single week by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program,

0:16.0

which is the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, as well as BASIS, the Business Association

0:21.8

of Stanford Entrepreneurals Students. My name is Tina Seleig and I am executive director

0:27.4

of Knight-Hennessee Scholars. But before that, I was faculty director of STVP and taught this class

0:36.5

for 20 years.

0:38.3

So this is an amazing opportunity to be back here today

0:42.3

and a very, very, very special opportunity

0:45.3

to be introducing Clara Shai.

0:47.3

Because Clara was a student in this class

0:51.3

and she was a Mayfield fellow 20 years ago.

0:55.0

Amazing, I wish I'd been able to tell you,

0:57.2

20 years from now, you're gonna be standing right up here.

1:00.6

I can tell you, Clara is a force of nature.

1:03.8

I wish that when she was a student,

1:05.6

I had followed my instincts because I thought,

1:08.2

I want stock in this lady.

1:10.4

She is something amazing. Clara is the

1:13.6

CEO, I want to get it right, of Salesforce AI, which makes Enterprise AI for customer

1:21.8

relationship management. She has so many accomplishments and has been recognized in so many ways.

1:28.5

For example, Clara has been a, is on Fortune's most powerful women entrepreneurs list,

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