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Kit Rodgers is a technology executive and a testament to the long-term impact of Stanford’s entrepreneurship education. As a member of the inaugural 1996 cohort of what is now the Mayfield Fellows Program, his experience helped set the entire course for his professional life. Today, Kit is the senior vice president of technology partnerships and ...read more

When it comes to building resilience, Garry Tan, CEO  of Y Combinator and founder of Initialized Capital (and class of 2003) recommends entrepreneurs  do the work on themselves as much as on their big ideas.“If you’re not aware of your internal default programming, then it will rule you,” he said.  Be as dogged in self-care ...read more

This past year at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program has been one of remarkable growth, research, innovation, and commitment to nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. In 2025, STVP’s home department Management Science & Engineering, celebrated 25 years of entrepreneurship education, and the School of Engineering turned 100!.  As we move toward three decades ...read more

Ann Miura-Ko is a renowned educator and mentor at Stanford University, where she co-teaches the Mayfield Fellows Program (MFP) and lectures in entrepreneurship. With a PhD in math modeling of cybersecurity from Stanford, Ann is celebrated for her hands-on, student-centered approach and for shaping some of the university’s most impactful entrepreneurial courses, including Tech Venture ...read more

Each year the Strategic Management Society honors the leaders both established and emerging who have had significant impact on strategic management and business practice. This year, SMS recognized Stanford Adjunct Professor Steve Blank (above left) with the Strategy Leadership Impact Award and gave STVP PhD alum Henning Piezunka (above right) the Emerging Scholar award.  The ...read more

Brandon Farwell, a Stanford alumnus (BA ’08 in economics) and Harvard MBA, is a general partner at Xfund, the venture capital firm founded in partnership with Accel, NEA, and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Leveraging his VC journey – and his experiences helping run the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) while ...read more

Heidi Roizen is a trailblazer in Silicon Valley venture capital and has championed a more relational, humanistic approach to professional practice – always with a keen focus on mentoring the next generation. There is no greater example of this than in her role leading the Threshold Venture Fellows (TVF) program at Stanford Technology Ventures Program. ...read more

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) has always worked to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem and scale responsible innovation around the world. Roberto Bunge, Stanford PhD (Aeronautics and Astronautics) and an alum of STVP’s Accel Leadership Program, exemplifies this ethos as the founding director of the Department of Engineering at Argentina’s Universidad de San Andrés and ...read more

Stanford’s commencement and student awards season shone a spotlight on two of STVP’s remarkable graduating Mayfield Fellows, Peyton Klein and Divya Ganesan. Their work has helped define what community, resilience, and student-driven change look like at Stanford.

This spring, Stanford’s Management Science & Engineering department celebrated 25 years. Founded in 1997, STVP has been part of MS&E since the department was formed, and both have evolved alongside entrepreneurship, advancing research and education to understand and meet the ever-changing innovation ecosystem. The real-world impact of Stanford entrepreneurship is already massive.  Professor and STVP ...read more