PEAK Fellows

Develop guiding principles for entrepreneurial leadership

PEAK Fellows offers 16 Stanford undergraduate and co-term students the opportunity to develop their personal principles for entrepreneurial leadership. These principles are designed to help guide each fellow as they shape teams and align their career decisions with their values. Over the course of a quarter, fellows build a values-based entrepreneurial mindset and toolkit within the close-knit cohort through honest discussions and mentoring from alumni and peers. PEAK Fellows is part of the Principled Entrepreneurship: Action & Knowledge (PEAK) project through STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.

Current Cohort

Shray Alag

Computer Science

Daryl Budiman

Symbolic Systems (Human-Computer Interaction) and Product Design

Anna Edmonds

Computer Science
Anna Edmonds

Karetina Fekade-Tessema

International Relations

Aurora Feng

Economics

Henry Hill-Gorman

Econonomics and Philosophy (BA), Media and Business (MA)

Jinyoung Kim

Math

Nahum Maru

Computer Science

Sofie Roux

Civil Engineering (Architecture) and Mechanical Engineering (Design)

Zane Sabbagh

Symbolic Systems (BS), Computer Science (MS)

Sou Min Shin

International Relations

Mario Sumali

Computer Science

Kevina Wang

Computer Science (Computational Biology)

Ecem Yilmazhaliloglu

Computer Science

Zach Zafran

Mathematical and Computational Science

Jessica Zhang

Symbolic Systems

Student Leaders

Jason Ping

Management Science & Engineering

Photo of PEAK fellow Justin Ping

Nicholas Kim

Management Science & Engineering

Photo of PEAK fellow Nicholas Kim

Student Co-Founders

Brooke Martin

Management Science & Engineering

Brooke Martin

Gopal Raman

Economics

Gopal Raman

Advisors

Tom Byers

Professor, MS&E and Faculty Director, STVP

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Tom Byers

Jack Fuchs

Investor, Global Entrepreneur & Adjunct Lecturer, MS&E

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Jack Fuchs

Mar Hershenson

Adjunct Lecturer, MS&E

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Mar Hershenson

Brandon Farwell

General Partner, Xfund

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Program info and Application

PEAK Fellows is an opportunity for 16 Stanford undergraduate and co-term students to explore what it means to develop and practice principles in the context of entrepreneurial businesses. It places students who are working in technology ventures into cohorts of eight students to learn with peers and gain mentorship.

Through readings and bi-weekly meetings, students define a set of principles that resonate with them. These principles will serve as guides for how Fellows shape future teams and select workplaces that align with their values. Fellows engage in small-group discussions with industry guests offering unique perspectives from their own entrepreneurial experiences.

After PEAK Fellows comes to a close, students come away with a heightened understanding of their own values, a close-knit community of peers, and the tools necessary to begin to brave ethical dilemmas in the future.

PEAK Fellows is part of the Principled Entrepreneurship: Action & Knowledge (PEAK) project through STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.

IMPORTANT DATES

Applications for the PEAK 2023 Cohort are now closed.

Please email Mandy Llerena-Weiks with any questions about applying to the PEAK Fellows program.

Alumni

Acknowledgements

STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, extends its deep appreciation to Pear VC for supporting this program for Stanford students.

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