This week on <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/view-top-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">View From The Top</a> we’re sharing an episode of <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/gsb-at-100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GSB at 100</a>, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold. On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll step inside the classrooms where teaching sparks transformation. <a href="https://www.gsb100.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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 &lt;p&gt;This week on &lt;a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/view-top-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;View From The Top&lt;/a&gt; we’re sharing an episode of &lt;a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/gsb-at-100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. &lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt; presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll step inside the classrooms where teaching sparks transformation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gsb100.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See Privacy Policy at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; and California Privacy Notice at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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From management to modeling, we explore the classroom experience at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

S8E12: GSB at 100: "The Experience"

At 30, Orlando Bravo, JD/MBA '97, thought his private equity career might be over. “I did three deals and when the dot-com bubble burst two out of the three went to zero,” he tells Gintare Zukauskaite, MBA ’26. “It was an absolute disaster.”&nbsp;Mentor and firm principal Carl Thoma, MBA ’73, gave him one more chance. Bravo pitched software buyouts, and five years later — “one deal at a time” — he’d become a named partner at the firm, Thoma Bravo, which today manages about $180 billion.&nbsp;&nbsp;“Find the [risks] that are meant for you to take,” Bravo advises. “Do the work, focus on your business, focus on you, and do your thing. That will pay huge, huge dividends, and will make everything very, very clear.”This conversation was recorded on October 21, 2025.See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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 &lt;p&gt;At 30, Orlando Bravo, JD/MBA '97, thought his private equity career might be over. “I did three deals and when the dot-com bubble burst two out of the three went to zero,” he tells Gintare Zukauskaite, MBA ’26. “It was an absolute disaster.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mentor and firm principal Carl Thoma, MBA ’73, gave him one more chance. Bravo pitched software buyouts, and five years later — “one deal at a time” — he’d become a named partner at the firm, Thoma Bravo, which today manages about $180 billion.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Find the [risks] that are meant for you to take,” Bravo advises. “Do the work, focus on your business, focus on you, and do your thing. That will pay huge, huge dividends, and will make everything very, very clear.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This conversation was recorded on October 21, 2025.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See Privacy Policy at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; and California Privacy Notice at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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Thoma Bravo’s co-founder and managing partner reflects on his path from Puerto Rico to pioneering software buyouts.

S8E11: Orlando Bravo on Doing the Work, One Deal at a Time

This week on [If/Then or View From The Top] we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold. On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll hear from the dedicated and accomplished staff members who work behind the scenes to make <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stanford GSB</a> a community unlike anywhere else in the world. <a href="https://www.gsb100.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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 &lt;p&gt;This week on [If/Then or View From The Top] we’re sharing an episode of &lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt;, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. &lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt; presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On this episode of &lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt;, you’ll hear from the dedicated and accomplished staff members who work behind the scenes to make &lt;a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Stanford GSB&lt;/a&gt; a community unlike anywhere else in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gsb100.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See Privacy Policy at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; and California Privacy Notice at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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Meet some of the people whose work powers a school that changes lives, organizations, and the world.

S8E10: GSB at 100: "The Spirit"

This week on View From the Top we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs, as the GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next hundred years may hold. The first episode of the series begins where the GSB begins: in 1925, Herbert Hoover, a Stanford alum and future U.S. president, had an idea. “A graduate School of Business Administration is urgently needed upon the Pacific Coast,” he wrote.&nbsp; One hundred years later, what has <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stanford Graduate School of Business</a> accomplished, and what might its future hold? Listen in as professors reflect on founding principles, frontier technologies, and the magic that makes the GSB the place it is — and shapes what it aspires to be. <a href="https://www.gsb100.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial</a> See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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 &lt;p&gt;This week on &lt;em&gt;View From the Top &lt;/em&gt;we’re sharing an episode of &lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt;, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. &lt;em&gt;GSB at 100&lt;/em&gt; presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs, as the GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next hundred years may hold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first episode of the series begins where the GSB begins: in 1925, Herbert Hoover, a Stanford alum and future U.S. president, had an idea. “A graduate School of Business Administration is urgently needed upon the Pacific Coast,” he wrote.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One hundred years later, what has &lt;a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Stanford Graduate School of Business&lt;/a&gt; accomplished, and what might its future hold? Listen in as professors reflect on founding principles, frontier technologies, and the magic that makes the GSB the place it is — and shapes what it aspires to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gsb100.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See Privacy Policy at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; and California Privacy Notice at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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Professors reflect on what Stanford GSB has accomplished in one hundred years and what the future may hold.

S8E9: GSB at 100: “The Magic”

Luis von Ahn was a tenured professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who had sold a company to Google. “You were pretty set, a lot of us would say, so why were you so hungry to build something new with Duolingo?” asks Ayesha Karnik, MBA ’25.&nbsp;“For the first time ever, with phones, we can reach billions of people,” reflects the Duolingo co-founder and CEO. “I want it to be the case that we can show that screen time is actually useful for the world.”&nbsp;From human-computer interaction and pioneering early 2000s consumer tech gamification to his thoughts on leadership and the future of AI, von Ahn shares his unique perspective on where he’s been, what he’s working on today, and the future of learning.&nbsp;There’s also that unpredictable owl mascot. “I wouldn’t say our brand is ‘chaos,’ okay?” he jokes. “We call it wholesome unhinged.”This episode was recorded on May 5, 2025.See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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 &lt;p&gt;Luis von Ahn was a tenured professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who had sold a company to Google. “You were pretty set, a lot of us would say, so why were you so hungry to build something new with Duolingo?” asks Ayesha Karnik, MBA ’25.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“For the first time ever, with phones, we can reach billions of people,” reflects the Duolingo co-founder and CEO. “I want it to be the case that we can show that screen time is actually useful for the world.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From human-computer interaction and pioneering early 2000s consumer tech gamification to his thoughts on leadership and the future of AI, von Ahn shares his unique perspective on where he’s been, what he’s working on today, and the future of learning.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There’s also that unpredictable owl mascot. “I wouldn’t say our brand is ‘chaos,’ okay?” he jokes. “We call it wholesome unhinged.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This episode was recorded on May 5, 2025.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See Privacy Policy at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; and California Privacy Notice at &lt;a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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Duolingo’s co-founder and CEO shares his thoughts on leadership, AI, and the company’s mischievous mascot.

S8E8: Luis von Ahn Is Making Screen Time Count

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