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Grit & Growth
Meet intrepid entrepreneurs from Africa and South Asia, hear their stories of trial & triumph, and gain insights and guidance from Stanford University faculty and global business experts on how to transform today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities. From securing investment and plann...
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Authentic Communication: Live from Stanford Seed Summit in South Africa
We're excited to bring you a special cross-over episode from our friends at the 'Think Fast, Talk Smart' podcast. Host Matt Abrahams joined us and rec...
Stanford Professors Reflect on Fostering Grit & Nurturing Growth
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s final episode. After five years and 90 episodes, we’ve asked four Stanford GSB professors who teach in the Seed Transformat...
Tangguh dan Pertumbuhan: Kisah Singkat
Perkenalkan Denica Riadini-Flesch, seorang mantan ekonom yang menjadi pengusaha. Ia sedih melihat perjuangan para pengrajin dan petani tradisional di...
Short Takes: Growing Impact, Stitch by Stitch
Meet Denica Riadini-Flesch, a former economist turned entrepreneur, who was so saddened by the struggles of traditional artisans and farmers in rural...
Short Takes: Disrupting African Travel, One Ticket at a Time
Meet Wyclife Omondi, co-founder of BuuPass, a company committed to tackling one of Africa’s biggest challenges: transportation inefficiency. The solut...
Short Takes: Breaking Barriers with Heavy Machinery
Meet Santhoshi Sushma Buddhiraju, CEO and cofounder of Autocracy Machinery, a heavy machinery manufacturing company located in southern India. The ide...
Short Takes: Building a Health(y) Business in Rural India
Meet Sumit Sinhal, founder and director of Kin’s Health, a growing healthcare company located in West Bengal, India, at the foot of the Himalayas. Whi...
Stories Sell: A Masterclass on Building Trust One Tale at a Time
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on sales, featuring Celine Duros, a woman who started her career in sales at 16 and is now both an experienced...
Securing Seed Capital: Can You Pass the Napkin Test?
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on the do’s and don’ts of pitching VCs, featuring Zach George, general partner at Launch Africa Ventures, one o...
Leading Through Layoffs: A Masterclass with Esi Ansah
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on downsizing with Esi Ansah, executive director of the Center for Leadership at Ashesi University and founder...
From Downsizing to Thriving: Strategic HR in a Global Context
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on strategic HR with Rokhaya Ndiaye, CEO and founder of Ro&Partners, a human capital consulting firm. Gain valu...
Masterclass on Stanford’s Most Popular Leadership Course
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on leadership with Collins Dobbs, a Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer in leadership and a seasoned...
From Instinct to Insight: Crafting an Intentional Sales Strategy
Every entrepreneur understands the critical importance of sales to business success. But often, in the early stages of growth, teams tend to focus on...
Masterclass: Rule Makers and Rule Breakers in Business Culture
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on cross-cultural dynamics with Michele Gelfand, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor in organization...
Navigating the AI Revolution: Practical Insights for Entrepreneurs
Is AI part of your business strategy? Well, if it’s not, it probably should be. Ethan Mollick, Wharton School professor of innovation and entrepreneur...
Expanding Globally: A Masterclass with Steve Ciesinski
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on going global – a guide for expanding your business beyond borders. Steve Ciesinski, Stanford Graduate School...
Co-Intelligence: An AI Masterclass with Ethan Mollick
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on AI — a practical guide for experimenting and engaging with artificial intelligence. Ethan Mollick, Wharton S...
Africa's Economic Horizon: A Conversation with Acha Leke, Chairman, McKinsey Africa
Meet Acha Leke, senior partner and chairman of McKinsey Africa and co-founder of the African Leadership Academy. Leke has been analyzing the economic...
From Local Startup to Pan-African Success: The Beem Story
Starting a business and growing it are challenging enough. But expanding globally, across the entire African continent with 54 very different countrie...
Season 4 Trailer
Welcome back to Grit & Growth from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In Season 4, you’ll hear tales of entrepreneurial trials and triumphs, obstac...
Short Takes: Trailblazing the Internet of Things in Bangladesh
Meet Mir Shahrukh Islam, cofounder and CEO of Bondstein Technologies Ltd. in Bangladesh. He created his IoT, or internet of things, company at a time...
Short Takes: Where Science Meets Culture
Meet Raj Prakash, cofounder of Zifo, a science informatics company in India. While growing revenues is on almost every entrepreneur’s mind, Prakash be...
Short Takes: Pioneering a Holistic Approach to Speech Therapy in Kenya
Meet Grace Macharia, a speech and language therapist and founder of SLT Support in Nairobi, Kenya. She created a social enterprise with a mission to s...
Introducing the If/Then podcast from Stanford GSB
If/Then is a new podcast from the Stanford Graduate School of Business that we think will be of great interest to Grit & Growth listeners. This episod...
Short Takes: Growing a Family and a Business
Meet Sakshi Kapahi, head of Omam Consultants, an HR consultancy in India, and a mother on a mission to balance home and work life for herself and her...
Workplace Friction: How to Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on friction — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Robert Sutton, Stanford professor in the School of Engineering a...
Fail It 'til You Nail It: Masterclass on Embracing the Upside of Down
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on growth mindset and psychological safety and how they can empower employees to speak up, fail fast, and fail...
Creating a Culture of Healthy Debate
Does your company have a culture where people are truly free to speak their minds … without fear of retribution? At the start of the pandemic, Elikem...
FLASHBACK | Raising Capital in Africa: It’s Not Just About the Money
We're excited to announce that Stanford Seed has a new advisory board member: Andreata Muforo. We are thrilled to have Andreata on our team! To celebr...
How to "Think Faster and Talk Smarter": a Masterclass with Matt Abrahams
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on spontaneous communication — those unplanned moments when you’re called on in a meeting, asked to give feedba...
The Business of Ending Generational Poverty in India: Haqdarshak!
Creating a compelling strategy is step number one for every business. But almost no one gets it right on the first try. Aniket Doegar and “Guns” Ganap...
Making Great Strategy: A Masterclass with Jesper Sørensen
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on strategy, featuring Jesper Sørensen’s insights on how to build a strategy for success and accept the inheren...
Unleashing the Power of Market Creation
Almost every entrepreneur dreams of becoming a market leader. But a business's greatest potential for success happens with market creation. Andela, le...
Executive Coaching: Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Go It Alone
Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on coaching, featuring Laurie Fuller, a certified executive coach, who believes entrepreneurs can benefit from...
Taking a Stand with Your Brand: Genderless Fashion in Africa
In Africa, as in the rest of the world, gay rights is a deeply divisive issue and queer people often face discrimination and violence. Wandia Gichuru,...
Strategy: It’s the Big Bets that Matter
Do you have a strategy? Or do you just have a plan? Understanding the difference and how to define and execute on both is essential to transforming yo...
Executive Coaching: From Self-Doubt to Self-Awareness
Entrepreneurs aren’t meant to solve all their business problems alone, but all too often they try. Kunaal Rach, CEO of Healthy U, was no exception … u...
Pivot, Adapt, Grow: Building a Fashion Brand in Kenya
Starting a business is hard enough. But growing it can be exponentially harder — especially when crossing borders and continents and in a business as...
Short Takes: Sweet Success – Can you build an ice cream unicorn in India?
Meet Gaurav Khemani, CEO of Prestige Ice Creams based in Kolkata. Faced with COVID-19 shutdowns, a cyclone, supply chain pains, and more, Khemani beli...
Short Takes: From Farms to Forks
Meet Delia Stirling, commercial director of Brown’s Food Co. in Nairobi. She and her team are on a mission to spark consumer demand for foods made fro...