Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6&Z podcast. I'm Sonal. I'm here today with A6 and Z general partners Mark Andreessen and Martin Casado, and we're interviewing John Hennessy, who is the current chairman of Alphabet and was president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016, which also happened to be one of the most interesting times for tech and the valley. So in this episode, we cover everything from the Silicon Valley and Stanford models

to if it's possible to create other Silicon Valley's, and if so, where and how.

And of course, we also cover education as well as the tech and economics of education

to what it takes the lead companies. John has a new book out, leading matters

on principles for leadership, and he also recently launched the Knight-Hennessee Scholars Program

for graduate students focusing on both knowledge and leadership. Finally, we discuss the

evolving shift between academia and industry, including the role of universities, big company

R&D and the heyday of famous

labs, and entrepreneurship then and now, which, by the way, is why I asked Mark and Martin to join

this episode, given their experiences going from university research to industry, Mark with

Netscape and Martine with Nisera, which came out of Stanford before being acquired by VMware.

But first we

began with John's own history as a startup founder based on pioneering the microprocessor architecture

used in 99% of devices today. So welcome, guys. Thanks. I'd like to point out that Hennessy's

Ulsa-Turing Award winner. This is unbelievably awesome. That's like the noble prize of computing.

So you and Dave Patterson won that.

Why did you guys win it?

Well, I think we won it because the work we did has reshaped the entire industry.

Many times when you find a fundamental breakthrough, its importance may take a really long time to emerge,

particularly in the hardware sector.

It moves so much slower than software.

And in this case, with the explosion of the mobile world and Internet of Things, efficient

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