Steve Blank
Founding Faculty - Gordian Knot Center For National Security Innovation
Pescadero, California, United States
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SeniorSteve Blank is a pioneering entrepreneur and educator who co-created the Lean Startup movement and has co-founded or led eight Silicon Valley technology companies spanning semiconductors, personal and high-performance computing, video games, and enterprise software. As founding faculty of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation and the creator of the Lean LaunchPad curriculum, he helped the NSF and NIH standardize how research is commercialized and open-sourced his teaching materials. Steve blends hands-on startup marketing and product experience with public service—serving on conservation boards, the California Coastal Commission, and national defense advisory panels—bringing rare cross-sector influence to innovation policy. A decorated teacher honored by both Stanford and UC Berkeley, he now teaches programs like Hacking for Defense, Climate, Recovery, and Diplomacy that translate entrepreneurial methods into government and nonprofit impact. Based in Pescadero, California, he pairs technical fluency (familiarity with languages like C/C++ and Python) with decades of go-to-market and organizational design expertise. An unexpected throughline in his career is turning classroom methods into national programs: his Lean LaunchPad became the backbone of the NSF I-Corps.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)
osmo34/JSW
Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:171 commits, 159 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
osmo34/Frogger
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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