Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University, headquartered at the Knight Management Center in Stanford, California. Founded in 1925, it offers the two-year MBA, the one-year MSx, a PhD, and Executive Education, and is consistently ranked among the most selective business schools in the world. Its mission is to change lives, change organizations, and change the world.
Ajay Prakash is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rinse, a tech-enabled clothing care company that has raised over $70 million and operates pickup-and-delivery laundry services across major U.S. cities. A Stanford GSB MBA alum (Class of 2010), he returned to his alma mater as a Lecturer in Management, teaching Startup Garage: Design — an intensive course where student teams build and test real-world business concepts. Before Rinse, Prakash worked at Bain & Company, Berkshire Partners, and briefly interned with Bonobos (where he became an early angel investor). He holds a BA in Economics with High Honors from Dartmouth College and has been featured on NPR's 'How I Built This' with Guy Raz.
Luca Dellanna is an Italian author, management consultant, and systems thinker based in Turin, who has written 10+ books on ergodicity, risk management, behavioral psychology, and long-term strategy. Best known for making the concept of ergodicity accessible to a broad audience, he advises organizations on operational excellence and cultural change, teaches at the University of Genoa, and has been featured on EconTalk twice. His work sits at the intersection of probability theory, human behavior, and practical management wisdom.
Julie Zhuo is Facebook's first intern turned VP of Product Design, author of the WSJ bestseller 'The Making of a Manager,' and co-founder/CEO of Sundial - an AI-powered analytics platform backed by Sequoia Capital with OpenAI as a client. She spent 14 years at Facebook helping scale it from under 100 employees to over 2 billion users, overseeing the design of News Feed, the Like button, and Reactions. Today she runs a 95,000+ subscriber newsletter called The Looking Glass and is building what she describes as 'the analytics platform for the AI era.'