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Ilya A. Strebulaev
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His argument is that the way venture capitalists decide under deep uncertainty is a discipline anyone can learn, not a trick reserved for investors.
Ilya A. Strebulaev is the David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 2004, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2010. He founded and directs the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative, which studies how venture capital and private equity actually work rather than how they are described.
His academic work has taken the First Paper Prize of the Brattle Award for the best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance in 2007, and the Fama DFA Prize for the best asset pricing paper in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2011. He is a co-author, with Alex Dang, of The Venture Mindset, published by Portfolio in 2024. His teaching took the Stanford GSB MBA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009.
Speaking at the AI Summit at Stanford on The Venture Mindset: Insights on Startups and VC.
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Founder and director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessCo-author with Alex Dang of The Venture Mindset, Portfolio, 2024
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessReceived the Brattle Award First Paper Prize in 2007 and the Fama DFA Prize in 2011
Stanford UniversityResearch Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2010, Stanford GSB faculty since 2004
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