Who you are defines how you build. This is Thought Leaders Revisited, a special summer

2020 edition of our Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. During this summer of uncertainty,

we're inviting some of the most influential past ETL speakers to join us for a series of new conversations

about innovation, leadership, and especially finding opportunities in the midst of a crisis.

On this episode, we're joined by Anne Mira Co. Anne is co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed stage

venture capital firm. She's also a co-sponsor of the AI grant,

a nonprofit research lab that funds work on open source AI. And she's also a co-founding member

of Allrays, a nonprofit committed to improving diversity in funders and founders.

I am delighted to welcome Anne Miraco to ETL, actually back to ETL. How are you doing

this afternoon, Ann? I'm doing great. How are you? Well, I wish I had your camera and lighting. I'll

tell you that. I want to do this in like three pastures or three parts, if you don't mind.

Part one is about radical innovation and exponential impact.

And you often talk about deeply passionate, ambitious entrepreneurs and innovators,

and they go out and they change history.

So let's talk about what it means to really change history. And what I'm hoping we do is we inspire people watching this and listening to this to appreciate that they can do that.

And wow, do we need some history to be changed nowadays?

As we like to say, the SDVP together, the bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

And there are lots of problems that we need radical innovations for.

So let's play a clip from 10 years ago when you spoke in the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Seminar series at Stanford.

Let's play that.

I wanted to take a step back first to talk about the whole notion of

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