Ravi Belani (Stanford University) - Building Billion Dollar Businesses

As a lecturer in Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering, Ravi Belani regularly teaches MS&E 472, the Stanford course associated with the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. He is also the managing director of Alchemist Accelerator, an accelerator program that focuses on enterprise businesses and has funded startups like LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Computing and Zipongo. Before Alchemist, he spent four years as an associate at the VC firm DFJ. There, he was instrumental in backing the company that later became Twitch, which was acquired by Amazon for $970 million in 2014. In this talk, he draws on his keen observations of the Silicon Valley ecosystem to identify the factors that align to create the most transformational venture-scale businesses. -------------------- Stanford eCorner content is produced by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At STVP, we empower aspiring entrepreneurs to become global citizens who create and scale responsible innovations.   CONNECT WITH US Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECorner  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanfordtechnologyventuresprogram/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanfordTechnologyVenturesProgram/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ecorner    LEARN MORE eCorner Website: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/ STVP Website: https://stvp.stanford.edu/   Support our mission of providing students and educators around the world with free access to Stanford University's network of entrepreneurial thought leaders: https://ecorner.stanford.edu/give.