Steve Blank

Steve Blank is an entrepreneur, educator, and pioneer in the modern startup movement. With experience founding and scaling multiple technology companies in Silicon Valley, he developed the Customer Development methodology that became the foundation of the Lean Startup revolution. Blank has taught entrepreneurship at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and other leading institutions, influencing thousands of founders and reshaping how innovation is taught. His work has been instrumental in shifting startup culture from intuition-based execution to evidence-based learning.