DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar: Roger McNamee - Partner, Elevation Partners

Elevation Partners is a newly formed private equity firm that makes large-scale investments in market-leading media, entertainment, and consumer-related businesses. Elevation's focus is on intellectual property businesses where it can partner with management to enhance growth and profitability through a combination of strategic capital and operational insight.

The firm is led by an investment team with a unique combination of media and entertainment knowledge and relationships, technology domain knowledge and relationships, investing experience, and operating expertise. Businesses that partner with Elevation expect to transform themselves through the strategic use of technology and licensing, as well as improvements in core marketing, distribution, and operating processes.

What is ETL?

The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

The seminar is free and open to public. It also functions as a class called "Management Science and Engineering 472".