12/3/2010 12:01:54 PM By
Paul Kedrosky
In this episode, Paul talks with Bill Stensrud, investor and entrepreneur. They talked about Stensrud's involvement from the roots of the Internet, in a number of capacities. They discussed how, from an investment perspective, greentech and biotech industries are currently missing the technology breakthrough such as the transistor or the Internet, which would cause explosive growth. Finally, they explored the changing face of investing, in which new models may be emerging.
Stensrud graduated from MIT in 1971 majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He held a variety of technical, marketing and executive positions in the communications industry. He was a founder of StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), the CEO of Primary Access (acquired by 3Com) and an early investor and Director of Juniper Networks. He was a partner with a major venture capital firm in San Diego and ranked by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 25 “Movers and Shakers” in the venture capital industry. Stensrud is now a private investor and mentor to entrepreneurs.
Stensrud has been a philanthropist and an active supporter of the arts for many years. He has served on the boards of Scripps Health, the Neurosciences Institute, the San Diego Telecom Council, the University of California at San Diego Foundation, the National Venture Capital Association. He is a past President of the San Diego Opera and is a passionate lover of classical music in all of its many forms.
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6/15/2010 11:10:15 AM By
Paul Kedrosky
In this episode, Paul talks with Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. They discussed what the world might have looked like without the venture capital industry, then talked about current issues and potential changes in the industry.
In his position with HBS, Learner holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Areas. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of technology, before working for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department.
Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations. This research is collected in three books, The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and the recent Boulevard of Broken Dreams (which was published by Princeton University Press as part of the Kauffman Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship).
In the 1993-94 academic year, he introduced an elective course for second-year MBAs on private equity finance. In recent years, “Venture Capital and Private Equity” has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at Harvard Business School.
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5/20/2010 2:17:22 PM By
Paul Kedrosky
In this episode, Paul talks with Frank Partnoy, the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego. Among other topics, they discussed how investors' unrealistic desires for fortune have played into the hands of financial managers ready and willing to take advantage of them.
In addition to writing regular opinion pieces for
The New York Times and the
Financial Times, Partnoy has written several books, including
Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets, a leading corporate law casebook, and
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals, about the 1920s markets and Ivar Kreuger, who many consider the father of modern financial schemes. He has been interviewed on
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central), the
Diane Rehm Show (NPR),
Fresh Air (NPR)
The NewsHour (PBS), and
60 Minutes (CBS).
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