Steve Blank

Advisory Board

Steve Blank has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company. Steve is a past board member of California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), Audubon California, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) and Startup Weekend. He served as a governor's appointee to the California Coastal Commission. Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford and Columbia University. He was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering.