Frederic Kerrest (Okta) - The Truth about Entrepreneurship

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

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Frederic Kerrest is the executive vice chairman and co-founder of Okta. He is responsible for Okta's day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on the company's vision of enabling any organization to use any technology. Kerrest is the author of “Zero to IPO,” a WSJ Bestseller guidebook to building startups featuring insights from some of the world’s most successful and recognizable entrepreneurs. He’s also the co-host of the “Zero to IPO” podcast. In this presentation, Kerrest shares stories from his life to illustrate the challenges and excitement of being an entrepreneur and offers practical advice for students starting their careers.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford Ecorner.
0:13.0	Welcome YouTube and Stanford Communities to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar,
0:19.0	brought to you by Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students and STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in the School
0:26.7	of Engineering at Stanford.
0:28.2	I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:32.7	and the director of Alchemists and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups.
0:36.7	Today we are thrilled to invite Frederick Karist to ETL.
0:41.3	Frederick is the co-founder and chairman and former CEO of OCTA,
0:46.3	which is an $11 billion publicly traded enterprise software company
0:50.3	in the identity and access management space.
0:53.3	And I should say that it is a particular treat
0:55.0	to invite Frederick to ETL because he's one of our own.
0:58.0	He's a Stanford alum who was in your figurative seats a couple years ago.
1:02.0	He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1998
1:06.0	when computer science was not as ubiquitously dominant
1:09.0	as it is today on campus, and the buildings
1:11.8	weren't as nice.
1:12.7	So it was really because of visionaries like Frederick that went on from computer science
1:16.3	to build these world-changing companies like OCTA that has ushered in the generation
1:20.6	that we are seeing now on campus.
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