Steve Blank Podcast
Steve Blank
Steve Blank, eight-time entrepreneur and now a business school professor at Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley, shares his hard-won wisdom as he pioneers entrepreneurship as a management science, combining Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development. The conclusion? Startups are simply not small versions of large companies! Startups are actually temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Nov 18, 2020 • 20min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond
We just held our twelfth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Today’s topic was The Space Force and Modern War. Our guest speaker was Gen. John Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force.
Nov 17, 2020 • 21min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal
We just held our eleventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Military Applications of Cyber. Our guest speaker was Sumit Agarwal, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Senior Advisor for Cyber Innovation.
Nov 16, 2020 • 21min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy
We just held our tenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.
Today’s topic was The DoD and Modern War. With Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy joining us, we also assigned her recent article in Foreign Affairs, “How to Prevent a War in Asia”and CNAS report “Sharpening the US Military’s Edge: Critical Steps for the Next Generation”
Nov 15, 2020 • 12min
Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 9 – Autonomy – Maynard Holliday
We just held our ninth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Autonomy and Modern War. In this class session Maynard Holliday of RAND describes the potential of autonomy in the DoD.
Nov 14, 2020 • 21min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani
Chris Lynch, founder of Defense Digital Service, and Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO, discuss AI in modern war. Topics include optimizing warfighting capabilities with AI, innovating defense with a 'SWAT team of nerds', navigating challenges in defense tech, and ethical leadership in defense AI systems development.
Nov 14, 2020 • 19min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan
We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence; our guest speaker was General Jack Shanahan LTG (ret), former Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).
Nov 13, 2020 • 15min
Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper
We just held our sixth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.
Today’s topic was Innovations in Acquiring Technologies for Modern War.
Nov 8, 2020 • 11min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose
We just held our fifth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.
Today’s topic was The Challenges of Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare.
Nov 7, 2020 • 12min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby
We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.
Today’s topic was Defense Strategies and Military Plans in an Era of Great Power Competition.
Nov 4, 2020 • 11min
Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel
We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology for Modern War.
