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Graham Weaver

Disciplines:
usa
venture capital
private equity
stanford/stanford gsb

Summary

American private equity investor and Stanford Graduate School of Business professor — founder of Alpine Investors — known for a GSB lecture that went viral about living the life you want rather than conforming to external expectations.

Core Contribution

Made a viral impact through his Stanford GSB talk on deliberately designing your career and life — his emphasis on the courage to choose what you actually want (rather than optimizing for status or approval) resonated widely in the startup and PM community.

Historical Influences

Private equity tradition Self-determination literature

Intellectual Lineage

Stanford GSB Alpine Investors

Contemporaries & Peers

Bill Burnett

Minds Influenced

Stanford GSB cultureLenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Graham Weaver Stanford talk

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