Who is an Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship knows no boundaries. An entrepreneur can be anyone, anywhere regardless of age, background, gender, or race. At its core, entrepreneurship is a mindset: it is the drive to look at the world, spot a missing piece, and build a solution to fill it.

Innovators, Builders, and Everyday Heroes

The landscape of entrepreneurship is as diverse as the people who define it:

Tech Pioneers & Visionaries: Iconic figures like Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, and Steve Wozniak reshaped the world by creating groundbreaking high-tech products in humble garages, turning innovative ideas into industry empires.

Community Builders & Service Providers: Entrepreneurship lives just as vibrantly in everyday enterprise—the street vendor serving hot dogs on a busy corner, the general contractor constructing homes, or the teenager launching a neighborhood babysitting service.

Business Survival: the art of keeping the business afloat. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and "Father of the Video Game," discusses business survival — Silicon Valley style.

Charles Geschke and John Warnock discuss the founding of Adobe, developing a solution, building an ecosystem, desktop publishing, and industry transformation.

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of "Mindset", discusses the mindset of Silicon Valley founders and how they’re not afraid to fail.

Kevin Surace, founder of Serious Energy, discusses disruptive innovation — innovation that disrupts an existing market.

Dr. KR Sridhar, co-founder of Bloom Energy, talks about bringing Bloom Energy to Silicon Valley from his garage in Tucson, Arizona.