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This guy is really special. He went to Northwestern. I know that. I remember that much.

He was a part of Teach for America, which maybe some of you students are thinking about,

and I hope he'll talk a little bit about today because that is an incredible organization.

He also started another organization called One Economy, in 2000 that was highly successful

that I hope he'll talk about as well.

But in the 0608 timeframe, he was essentially President Obama's technology guru, and I got

that right off of Wikipedia, so it must be true, where he pulled together all the folks that were advising the then candidate

Obama on his technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship agenda. He has been, since early April

of 2009, the special advisor on innovation for Secretary Clinton in the State Department,

which if I got this right last year, just blow your mind, 65,000 employees, if I remember

that number correctly, 65,000 employees.

So we have one of them here, and we probably could find out where Secretary Clinton is today,

so we know where two of you are today.

So without further ado, let's make a special welcome to somebody who truly is an entrepreneurial thinker

inside this administration, Alec Ross.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tom.

And thank you all for coming out on a beautiful May afternoon in Palo Alto for y'all to come in.

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