A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path [Entire Talk]
Culture
Pursuing a meaningful mission can shape entrepreneurs, companies, brands and products.
Duration
42:56
Part of Series
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
Season
Season 22
Episode
6
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.
Video clips from: A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path [Entire Talk]
- 2:24There is no formula for a successful startup, so don’t make decisions based on what others do.
- 42:56Pursuing a meaningful mission can shape entrepreneurs, companies, brands and products.
- 3:29A clear mission can bring together great product design and a strong brand.
- 5:33Entrepreneurship is seeing an opportunity and having the courage to make a leap.
- 2:19Nonprofit and for-profit work can both be meaningful.
- 1:50Patents aren’t a business plan in themselves, but they’re valuable.
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