Stanford Technology Ventures Program : Bill Gross

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Motivation Through Equity and Risk-Taking

Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross articulates two organizational ways his company develops motivation. The first is to ensure employees working on a new spin-off ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

A Devotion to New Ideas

Bill Gross thrives on turning innovative ideas into pioneering companies. He serves as founder and CEO of Idealab, which started over 75 companies since 1996. In this ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

A Devotion to New Ideas [Entire Talk]

Bill Gross thrives on turning innovative ideas into pioneering companies. He serves as founder and CEO of Idealab, which started over 75 companies since 1996. In this ...

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Bill Gross , Idealab & eSolar

A Devotion to New Ideas [Entire Talk]

Bill Gross thrives on turning innovative ideas into pioneering companies. He serves as founder and CEO of Idealab, which started over 75 companies since 1996. In this ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

2 Reasons Companies Can Fail

Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross offers lessons he has learned from company failures. According to Gross, company failures are often due to two common ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Can You Objectively Compare Ideas?

Bill Gross, Idealab's founder and CEO, shares his thinking on how to objectively compare ideas. While admitting it can be a challenge to do so, ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Judge on Impact Over ROI

Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross addresses a question regarding his company's willingness to hear ideas from outside the company and the competitive advantage that ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Moore's Law: A New Weapon in the Solar Arsenal

Bill Gross, chairman of eSolar and founder of Idealab, discusses how Moore's Law provides a new weapon in the fight to make solar energy technologies ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

A Cogent Argument for Solar Energy

Idealab Founder Bill Gross lays out a clear and thoughtful explanation for solar energy being the best possible source for the planet's growing energy demands. ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Complementary Skills for Management Teams

Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross offers an engaging way of examining the mix of personalities present on management teams, featuring the roles of the ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Survive Until the Market is Ready

A number of companies born from Idealab were started way too soon, says Founder and CEO Bill Gross. However, a number of these firms went ...

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Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Weekend Warriors Discover the Pivot

Before Bill Gross founded Idealab, he started Knowledge Adventure, an early educational software company. In this clip, Gross shares how Knowledge Adventure discovered its major ...

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Bill Gross

Motivation Through Equity and Risk-Taking

A Devotion to New Ideas

A Devotion to New Ideas [Entire Talk]

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Motivation Through Equity and Risk-Taking

2 Reasons Companies Can Fail

Can You Objectively Compare Ideas?

Judge on Impact Over ROI

Moore's Law: A New Weapon in the Solar Arsenal

A Cogent Argument for Solar Energy

Complementary Skills for Management Teams

Survive Until the Market is Ready

Weekend Warriors Discover the Pivot

2 Reasons Companies Can Fail

Can You Objectively Compare Ideas?

Judge on Impact Over ROI

Moore's Law: A New Weapon in the Solar Arsenal

A Cogent Argument for Solar Energy

Complementary Skills for Management Teams

Survive Until the Market is Ready

Weekend Warriors Discover the Pivot

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