Steven Blank

Steve Blank is a company mentor at Roadrunner.

Steve, an eight-time entrepreneur-turned-educator, is the creator of the Lean Startup movement. This methodology has changed how startups are built, how entrepreneurship is taught, how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate.

Recognized as a thought leader on startups and innovation, Steve was named one of the Thinkers50 top management thinkers and recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of "12 Masters of Innovation."

Steve has taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford University (opens a new window), Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU and created the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, which is now the standard for science commercialization in the United States. His "Hacking for Defense" class at Stanford has revolutionizing how the U.S. defense and intelligence community deploys innovation with speed and urgency, and its sister class, Hacking for Diplomacy, is doing the same for foreign affairs challenges managed by the U.S. State Department.