Ilya Strebulaev | The Venture Mindset | Talks at Google

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Award winning Stanford professor and professor technology executive Ilya Strebulaev discusses his national bestseller, The Venture Mindset (co-authored with Alex Dang), which is a playbook on how to adapt to a rapidly changing world, make smarter bets, launch new ventures, and transform traditional organizations into hubs for innovation. Ilya has devoted two decades to studying VCs' counterintuitive approaches to decision-making and the reasons behind the successes and failures of corporate innovations. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs' thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey. Combining their insight and extensive experience, they present nine distinct principles that will help you make better decisions, transform your business, and achieve remarkable results, no matter your industry. The Venture Mindset is a must-read for anyone who wants to be better equipped for the era of uncertainty when industry, company, and career can be disrupted overnight. The Venture Mindset will teach you more than how to simply survive. It'll teach you how to win big. Get the book here: http://bit.ly/4g2wdSf Learn more about Ilya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyavcandpe/ Learn more about the Unicorn Report: https://www.patreon.com/TheVentureMindset Ilya Strebulaev is an international expert in venture capital, private equity, financing innovation, and strategic financial decisions. He is the David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 2004. Ilya is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the founder and the faculty director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative. His work has been widely published in leading academic journals. He has won numerous prestigious academic awards, including the First Paper Prize of the Brattle Award (Journal of Finance) and the Fama-DFA Prize (Journal of Financial Economics). His research has been featured by many major media sources, including the Harvard Business Review (on the VC mindset and on VC decision-making), MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barron’s, Fast Company, Fortune, Venture Beat, and TechCrunch. He has been named LinkedIn Top Voice in 2023. Professor Strebulaev has led many workshops and executive sessions on innovation trends, venture capital, the ecosystem of Silicon Valley, corporate innovation, corporate venture capital, and strategic decision making for senior business and government leaders around the world, as well as for partners of venture capital and private equity firms. He has also consulted global companies and investors on the valuation of VC-backed companies, selection of PE investments and managers, and PE portfolio allocation. Ilya graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in finance and also holds degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University (B.Sc., economics) and the New Economic School, Moscow (M.A., economics). The Venture Mindset has been translated into Korean and Kazakh languages. Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Russian language editions are coming in 2024-2025. Moderated by Peeyush Ranjan.