Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path

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

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Shiza Shahid is the co-founder and co-CEO of Our Place, a mission-driven startup reimagining kitchenware for the modern, multiethnic, global kitchen. Prior to Our Place, Shahid also co-founded the Malala Fund with Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. She led the organization as founding CEO, advocating for the rights of all girls to attend school. Shahid also launched NOW Ventures, an angel fund to invest in mission-driven startups. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Shahid shares how her life and career have shaped her view of entrepreneurship and offers advice for infusing mission and meaning into products and brands.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you by Stanford E.Corp.
0:07.0	Welcome everybody to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar at Stanford.
0:12.0	As you all know, the ETL or Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar is brought to you by STVP,
0:18.0	the Entrepreneurship Center and the Engineering School at Stanford, and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:24.9	Today, we have a very special ETL because our guest of honor is one of our own.
0:30.6	It is a Stanford alum, Shiza Shahid.
0:33.6	Shiza is the co-founder and co-CEO. Most famously today, she is known as being the co-founder and co-CEO with her husband of Our Place, which is a mission-driven startup, reimagining kitchenware for the modern, multi-ethnic, and global kitchen. They are the creators of the iconic Always Pan. Many of you already will have
0:55.8	known or been exposed to Shiza's products if you don't know about Shiza herself. Our place, though,
1:02.7	was founded in 2019 on the belief that home cooking has the power to bring people together.
1:08.1	And it's disrupting not just in being a mission-driven organization, but it's really
1:12.8	disrupting modern kitschware through rigor around design. The company has over 200 patents and has also
1:20.2	had wait lists that have sort of been off the charts that people have raved about over 30,000 people
1:25.2	wait lists. And we'll hopefully go into all the work that went
1:28.1	to get these amazing numbers and over a thousand press headlines. And also has some sort of some
1:35.2	fairly well-known users of its products as well, including celebrities like Lizzo and David Beckham
1:42.2	and others. But Shiza started not too long ago, literally in the seats that you are in.
1:49.0	Shiza was at the farm in 2011.
1:52.0	Shiza graduated from Stamper with a bachelor's degree in International Relations.
1:56.0	And she came to the farm on scholarship, having grown up literally on the other side of the world
2:01.7	in Pakistan in Islamabad, and at the age of 18, really uprooted herself and came to the farm.
2:07.7	She graduates with a bachelor's, and we'll talk about that experience as well.
2:11.8	She's a graduate's with a bachelor's degree in international relations, then gets a coveted job
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