Chuck Eesley

Ed Roberts
What an advisor is actually for, and what compounds across generations.
Jun 15 • Chuck Eesley
A Brilliant Intern With No Skin in the Game
What happened when I rebuilt my Stanford course for the agentic AI era — and let the students grade the experiment
Jun 9 • Chuck Eesley
We weren't ready. We started anyway.
Five years of a small family foundation, built on nights and weekends.
Jun 8 • Chuck Eesley

May 2026

Theo Baker’s Stanford Is Real. It Just Isn’t Most of Stanford.
What forty years of alumni data say about how representative the caviar-dinner version of Stanford really is.
May 26 • Chuck Eesley
Why we're betting more on teachers
- without abandoning students.
May 11 • Chuck Eesley
ARR Is Not the Problem. The Institutional Vacuum Around It Is.
On Cluely, the AI revenue metric debate, and what economists call the "cop on the beat" question
May 3 • Chuck Eesley

March 2026

The “In-Box Congestion” Crisis: Why AI Entrepreneurship Needs a Mechanism Design Overhaul
After Gautam Ahuja’s talk on signaling theory, a conversation with Itai Ashlagi, and Tom Mitchell’s presentation on AI history at the Stanford Digital…
Mar 4 • Chuck Eesley

February 2025

The Role of Institutional Trust in Shaping Entrepreneurial Intent
Institutional trust plays a crucial role in shaping economic and entrepreneurial outcomes, yet its effects are often overlooked in discussions about…
Feb 16, 2025 • Chuck Eesley
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