What Is ARR? Behind the Least-Trusted Metric of the AI Era ↗
Bloomberg · Annie Bang · April 2026
On AI-era venture metrics — what ARR actually measures, how diligence is failing, and why founder claims need new institutional checks.
Press & Media
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2026
The Future of Entrepreneurship ↗
The Future of Everything podcast with Russ Altman · Stanford Engineering · February 2026
Long-form conversation on Stanford's institutional environment, the alumni economic-impact study, AI's effect on founder cognition, and how universities actually contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystems.
2025
A Shared Century of Innovation ↗
Stanford Report · December 2025
On the long-running collaboration between Stanford GSB and the School of Engineering — and the entrepreneurship pipeline it has shaped.
The Evolution of Universities as Engines of Innovation ↗
Stanford Report · August 2025
Q&A on what the alumni-impact studies (MIT, Stanford, UVA) actually tell us about how universities produce founders, and what government investment in research does to that pipeline.
On Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the Innovation Virtuous Cycle
郝会DAILY interview series with Hao Yang (郝杨) · July 2025
Conversation on how Stanford and Silicon Valley grew up together — the PageRank licensing story, Lean Launchpad, tolerance for failure, and current openness questions around AI and immigration. Watch on Talks & Media →
Mezcal Negronis and the Economics of Misinformation ↗
Creative Distillation podcast (Episode 78) · CU Boulder Leeds School · March 2025
With Rob Hahn (founder of Avanti) on the algorithmic financing of online misinformation, AI-era venture diligence, and the institutional environment around founders.
Notre Dame AI & Labor Policy Workshop ↗
Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs · March 2025
Panelist among AI developers and adopters at a Notre Dame workshop on AI's effects on workers and the policy interventions that could help them adapt.
Earlier coverage
Stanford's Startup Prof ↗
Angel Invest Boston with Sal Daher · Episode 82
On the MIT / Ed Roberts lineage, NovoEd, and what makes ecosystems work.
University Entrepreneurship Programs May Not Increase Entrepreneurship Rates at Stanford ↗
Stanford APARC · 2021
Coverage of the SMJ paper with Yong Suk Lee — what STVP and the GSB Center for Entrepreneurial Studies actually do to alumni entrepreneurship rates.
New Study Examines How Stanford Alumni's Entrepreneurship Rates Differ by Ethnicity and Nationality ↗
Stanford FSI · 2018
Q&A on the Research Policy paper on the entrepreneurship gap between Asian American and non-American Asian alumni — and the intergenerational persistence of entrepreneurship.
UVA Alumni Entrepreneurs' Significant Impact on the Economy ↗
Darden Report Online · 2014
Coverage of the UVA alumni-impact study with Lenox, King, and Mehedi — the third volume in the alumni-impact trilogy after MIT (2009) and Stanford (2012).
Innovative Founders Give Tech Start-Ups an Edge ↗
Stanford Engineering · 2013
On the SMJ founding-team composition paper with David Hsu and Ed Roberts.
Stanford Alumni Create Nearly $3 Trillion in Economic Impact ↗
Stanford Engineering · 2012
Launch coverage of the Stanford Innovation Survey with William F. Miller.
Stanford's $2.7 Trillion Economic Jolt Beats MIT's $2 Trillion ↗
Forbes · Peter Cohan · November 2012
Press coverage of the Stanford Innovation Survey.
Kauffman Study on the Entrepreneurial Impact of MIT ↗
MIT News · February 2009
Launch coverage of the MIT alumni-impact study with Edward B. Roberts — the methodological forerunner of the Stanford and UVA studies.
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