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On today's episode, we have Amy Chang, the founder and CEO of a company, an adaptive virtual

chief of staff that integrates all of the users' email, contacts, and social feeds into one

platform. Prior to a company, Amy led Google Analytics for seven years, growing coverage from

1% to over 70% of the web. She holds a BS and an MS in

electrical engineering from Stanford. Here's Amy. Now, when you were back here for the

master's as well, and even in your undergrad time, tell me a little bit at that point, you know,

what was the entrepreneurial environment

like on the campus? Were you always kind of aware that you were interested maybe someday in

working at a startup or founding something? Or how did you find that here on our campus? I don't think it was

like it is today. I mean, it's much more kind of widespread and pervasive even in mainstream media

today to be an entrepreneur

and to pursue those opportunities. And I think in 99 and 2000, and Ravi, you can correct me

if your perception is different, I don't feel like it was quite as pervasive. And so for double

E in particular, many of us would go into hardware companies right after school. It wasn't

really as much of a thought process to say, oh, you know, let me start my own. And it wasn't until,

you know, 12, 13 years into my career that I thought, I might be interested in doing that. And I don't

think I would have had the confidence coming straight out of school. So kudos to those people

that do, because it's such a

great experience. You know, even some of our faculty have done research over the years on sort of

Stanford alums and the number of them, the really very high percentage that end up in startups

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