JLabs LLC CEO Judy Estrin on Using Environmental Ecosystems to Understand Innovation, Generational Changes in Communication and Comparing Basic Research to Applied Research in Product Development | Seed To Harvest Ep33

Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children"s book for adults. Today, I’m joined by one of our investors Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS LLC and co-founder for 8 technology companies since 1981. In the 1970s, she helped create the internet working with Vint Cerf to develop TCP/IP at Stanford. She’s the author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy and is passionate about the impacts of technology on democracy and society. Judy has served on the boards of FedEx Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Sun Microsystems, The Medium Company, and KQED as well as the Walt Disney Company, where she served for fifteen years. 00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Judy Estrin 05:26 Judy"s Book: Closing the Innovation Gap 11:08 Stifling innovation as opposed to creating it 15:37 Basic vs applied research 20:47 We need innovation around how we think about innovation 28:50 The future: fear and excitement Show notes: Judy Estrin | https://twitter.com/jlabsllc?lang=en JLabs LLC | http://www.jlabsllc.com/ Closing the Innovation Gap| https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Innovation-Gap-Reigniting-Creativity/dp/0071499873 Out of Whack! | https://medium.com/@judy_estrin/out-of-whack-3aab64d28625 Vincent Cerf | https://twitter.com/vgcerf David Carrico | https://twitter.com/davidacarrico