UC Berkeley's Chief Innovation/Entrepreneurship Officer: Professor Darren Cooke

About this episode

Dan Gonzales interviews Darren Cooke, UC Berkeley's Chief Innovation/Entrepreneurship Officer, discussing innovation, startups, and career advice.

What's up Startup Mindsets Nation! We've been out on the book tour in the Philippines but are BACK and better than EVER If you've bought a copy of Startup Mindsets already, you don't know how much that means to me, thank you 🙏 If you'd like to order a copy, find it on Amazon . Today's guest is Darren Cooke , the Chief Innovation/Entrepreneurship Officer at UC Berkeley . I was honored to have Darren on the podcast. Time Stamps (8:00) What does a CIO do? Coordinates resources (15:00) Working for biotech companies (25:00) How does Berkeley select which startups to work with (36:00) Publishing a book (37:25) Opinion on students pursuing entrepreneurial careers (43:00) Experience at Columbia Law School (45:00) Darren's Big Career Break (47:00) What was your first job (48:42) Book recs

People in this episode

Host: Dan Gonzales

Guest: Darren Cooke

Topics covered

• innovation
• entrepreneurship
• biotech
• startups
• career advice

Keywords

• Darren Cooke
• UC Berkeley
• entrepreneurship
• biotech
• startups
• career advice
• innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UC Berkeley

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