20 Facts About Ilya Strebulaev

Ilya A Strebulaev was born on May 17,1975 and is a Russian- American financial economist, researcher, author, and speaker with expertise in venture capital, startups, and corporate innovation.

Ilya Strebulaev has been a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2004.

Ilya Strebulaev was born in Moscow, Russia on May 17,1975, to a family of scientists and engineers.

Ilya Strebulaev then moved to London, where he pursued his doctoral studies at the London Business School under Stephen Schaefer.

In 2004, Strebulaev moved to Stanford, California, when he was hired by the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as an assistant professor of finance.

Ilya Strebulaev received tenure at Stanford University in 2010 and was promoted to full professor in 2014.

In 2016, Strebulaev was appointed a chaired professor, becoming the inaugural holder of the David S Lobel Professorship, the first endowed professorship in private equity at Stanford.

In 2015, Ilya Strebulaev founded the Venture Capital Initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he has been its faculty director since then.

Ilya Strebulaev is married to Anna Dvornikova; the couple has two children.

Ilya Strebulaev developed a framework with Will Gornall that asseses the value of private venture capital backed companies.

Ilya Strebulaev's research includes studies on the decision-making of startup investors, the organization and design of VC and corporate VC units, and the importance of venture capital in innovation and the economy.

Ilya Strebulaev has shown that the VC industry led to the creation of most large public US companies in the last 50 years and is an important growth engine behind the US innovation economy.

Ilya Strebulaev's work has been widely published in leading academic journals including The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, and The Journal of Financial Economics.

Ilya Strebulaev has received many awards for his work, including the First Paper Prize of the Brattle Award in the Journal of Finance and The First Place of the Fama-DFA Prize at the Journal of Financial Economics.

Ilya Strebulaev is known for actively sharing his research and teaching insights on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

In 2013, Ilya Strebulaev developed an MBA-level course on angel and venture capital financing and decision-making, which he has been teaching with famous VCs for the past ten years, with almost 1,000 students taking the class.

Ilya Strebulaev developed a class on the private equity industry in 2021.

In 2009, Ilya Strebulaev received the MBA Distinguished Teacher Award at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ilya Strebulaev received the Master's in Management Inaugural Best Teacher Award at the London Business School in 2010 and the Sloan Teaching Excellence Award at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2013.

Ilya Strebulaev frequently leads workshops and executive sessions on corporate innovation, venture capital, Silicon Valley, and strategic decision-making for senior leaders around the world.