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Steve Blank

Faculty, University of California

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, a former member of the Defense Business Board, and a member of the faculty of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program at the University of California. A former Air Force electronics technician, he repaired Wild Weasel jets in Vietnam.
Ideas

Modeling Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do?

The Pentagon must heed the lessons of RYAN and Able Archer amid its artificial-intelligence aspirations.

  • Steve Blank
Ideas

Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones

DoD's 40-plus boards must be restructured to help the department think far bigger.

  • Steve Blank, Raj Shah and Joe Felter