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Finding positivity in failure: Silicon Valley leaders talk about past setbacks
Last month, an Uber executive, the cofounder of a successful software company and a venture capitalist investor joined the Newton Lecture Series to speak to UC Berkeley students. But rather than talking about the successes that led them to their prestigious positions, they chose to discuss something much more taboo: failure. Each panelist opened up…
Panel of Cal Grads joins Newton Lecture Series
Another exciting week at the A. Richard Newton Lecture Series brought a panel of all-Cal-alumni speakers to Berkeley. These speakers—Jeff Huang (Facebook), Sanjay Jeyakumar (Twitter), and Padmini Pyapali (Uber)—shared their unique insights into entrepreneurship and technology. Moderated by Amit Kumar (Accel Partners), a familiar face for the series, the panelists spoke of their studies at…
The Accelerating Development of the Self-Driving Car
With Tesla’s self-driving cars having made the headlines these past few months (be it positive or negative press), the self-driving car topic has taken a different angle. Now that the Didi-Uber rivalry question has been answered, the sharing economy discussion has merged with that of the ‘connected’ car. As companies such as Uber and Lyft…