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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.

Today, I’m joined by one of our investors Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS LLC and co-founder for 8 technology companies since 1981. In the 1970s, she helped create the internet working with Vint Cerf to develop TCP/IP at Stanford. She’s the author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy and is passionate about the impacts of technology on democracy and society. Judy has served on the boards of FedEx Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Sun Microsystems, The Medium Company, and KQED as well as the Walt Disney Company, where she served for fifteen years.

00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Judy Estrin

05:26 Judy's Book: Closing the Innovation Gap

11:08 Stifling innovation as opposed to creating it

15:37 Basic vs applied research

20:47 We need innovation around how we think about innovation

28:50 The future: fear and excitement

Show notes:

Judy Estrin | https://twitter.com/jlabsllc?lang=en

JLabs LLC | http://www.jlabsllc.com/

Closing the Innovation Gap| https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Innovation-Gap-Reigniting-Creativity/dp/0071499873

Out of Whack! | https://medium.com/@judy_estrin/out-of-whack-3aab64d28625

Vincent Cerf | https://twitter.com/vgcerf

David Carrico | https://twitter.com/davidacarrico

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