Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

On today's episode, we have Adam Pizzoni, the founder and CEO of ABLE Schools, a dynamic scheduling platform that's helping transform

the way teachers manage their day-to-day tasks. Before founding ABLE, Adam helped co-found Yammer,

a social networking platform for businesses that was later sold to Microsoft. Here's Adam.

What I want to do real quick, I'm going to tell you what I want to talk about, and I got to decide what I wanted to talk about.

But I'm also interested in what you're curious about.

I could talk a lot about Yammer and all that, but I actually chose not to.

Because after Yammer, I left to start ABLE, and I think a lot about Yammer and all that, but I actually chose not to, because after Yammer,

I left to start ABLE, and I think a lot of the lessons I learned from Yammer I took into how do I find a new idea to work on that's in a totally different space that I don't understand,

and how do I evaluate those ideas, and also a bunch of lessons I learned about social enterprise

in general. So those are the

topics I wanted to cover. But before I start, just to understand who's in the room, I'm assuming

most people here actually from what I can see are students. Raise your hand if you're a current student.

I think that's going to be most people. Wow. Okay. Raise your hand if you currently run a company.

Awesome. Thank you. Raise your hand if you currently run a company.

Awesome, thank you.

Raise your hand if you aspire to start a company.

That is your goal.

That's a lot.

Okay, raise your hand if you aspire to start

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