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Let's welcome Michaeline and on and welcome back.

All right, so I'm going to start and just take a few minutes to talk about my background

and just kick off the discussion pretty much with a few few thoughts that I had planned

and before I got started I just wanted a show of hands for how many people are

actually starting started or actually running a company today in the audience okay

how many people are running a company and not talking about it okay how many

people would like to be an entrepreneur when you, okay. How many of you are

here for some other reason because you like films or because you really don't care about

for-profit entrepreneurship, but you're interested in social entrepreneurship or movies or

documentaries or other reasons? Okay.

How many don't know why they're here?

Literally.

So what I wanted to do was I was just, you know,

thinking about sort of what I felt when I was sitting in those seats not so long ago,

like Tom said. And as I was thinking about coming seats not so long ago, like Tom said.

And as I was thinking about coming back here for ETL,

I was thinking about what ETL did to me, you know, more than anything else.

And the one thing that I remember is that it just taught me to think very freshly about problems and about what I'd like to do and about

basically what I would like to do after I left Stanford. So I wanted to take a few minutes to share

a few thoughts about, you know, coming back to Stanford at ETL eight years later and sort of

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