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 Bonnie Semi.

Bonnie is the president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of JetBlue Airways,

that invests in and partners

with early stage startups that are inventing the future of travel and hospitality.

Welcome, Bonnie.

Thank you.

I'm excited to be back.

It's neat to be virtually at Stanford, even if I'm on the other side of the country right now. Well, I have to say,

your talk is one of the most inspiring that I have ever listened to. It just blew my mind from the

moment you got going. So what we're going to do today is we're going to take some of the old clips.

In fact, I have so many, it was hard for me to choose, some old clips to play and then reflect on them.

So I want to start with one about when you were 14 years old. I think it was 14, right?

Yep, yep. I was 14 a senior in high school. Okay. And someone, no, I should say I was a,

I take that I was a sophomore in high school at Cheapy High School in Ontario, California.

Okay, well, someone came to your school and had a list of all the things that they wanted to

accomplish, and you thought, I'm going to do the same thing.

And so you put together a list at that young age of all the things that you wanted to accomplish.

And the amazing thing that we will refer to throughout this time together is how you systematically

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