Entrepreneurship

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by The Times for a story about Elon Musk's role in gutting the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by The Times-Picayune for a story about New Orleans' efforts to establish itself as a destination for tech companies and…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by TechTarget for a story about the influence of Silicon Valley venture capitalists on Trump administration policy.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed for a story in The Hill about prospective buyers of the video-sharing app TikTok in the face of a U.S. ban

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by The Seattle Times for a story about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' embrace of Donald Trump.

In many ways, Rob Lalka has had a ringside seat for the tech revolution of the past three decades. As a teenager, he surfed the internet on AOL and coded a website for his church. He was attending Yale University when Facebook hit…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Marketplace for a story about prospects for TikTok alternatives if the app is banned in the U.S.

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for a story about Silicon Valley leaders embracing Donald Trump.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Forbes for a story about Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to replace third-party fact checkers on Facebook…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Quartz for a story about Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's embrace of Donald Trump.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by NBC News for a story about President-elect Trump's alliance with right-leaning tech executives.

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by the Associated Press for a story exploring why Big Tech CEOs like Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are seeking the…

Albert Lepage Professor in Business Rob Lalka's book The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits into Power was reviewed in MIT Technology Review by Brian Gardiner.

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was a guest on Computerworld's Today in Tech podcast, where he and host Keith Shaw discussed the rise in Big Tech executives seeking political…

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Vox for a story examining the tech industry's support for Donald Trump.

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by The Guardian for a story about Silicon Valley and venture capitalist support for Donald Trump.

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Forbes for a story about Elon Musk's plan to give away $1 million a day to voters in key swing states who sign a petition pledging support for the First and Second…

According to the 2024 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, area startups see artificial intelligence and machine learning as likely game-changers for their industries, but they’re not all sure if that’s a good thing.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Forbes for a story about the spread of misinformation in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene.

Jesse Devlyn (MBA '93) is CEO of Zoom Vision, which hopes to transform optometry in the U.S. by providing affordable, on-demand vision care to underserved populations, including the country’s large Hispanic community.

Music app Tipzy, which enables bars to generate insights from customer-requested music, hit a high note at this year’s Pitch Friday Competition, taking home the grand prize of $15,000 in cash and $2,500 in pro bono legal services.

Gently Soap, a skincare brand that creates bath products infused with clinically validated botanicals to provide “joyful relief” to people with sensitive skin, won first place and the top prize of $75,000 at the 24th annual Tulane…

Tulane University honored Chris Britt (A&S ’95) and Andrea Turner Moffitt (NC ’00) as Entrepreneurs of the Year at the 2024 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.

The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's second annual Founders Forum gave entreprenuership students the chance to meet and learn from the founders of 23 New Orleans area companies.

Rob Lalka, executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed by NOLA.com for a story about the findings of the 2023 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, an annual publication of the center that…