You are listening to the Draper Fisher-Jurvinson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar,

brought to you weekly by Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.

It is my great pleasure to introduce our speaker today, who is Carol Bartz.

Carol Bartz for the last 14 years has been the CEO and chairman of the board of Autodesk.

She is going to be transitioning very shortly to being the executive chairman of the board.

Without further ado, here's Carol Bartz.

Thanks, Tina.

Hi, everybody.

We're all your colleagues.

There's a lot of red chairs in here.

Let me tell you what I want to do today.

I'm going to tell you a little bit about AutodesS because I love Autodesk and I'm proud of it

and maybe some of you want to work for us someday.

And then the reason only sheets are up here is because what I really like to do is get your questions.

And rather than do questions answer, question and answer, I like to get all the questions at one time,

at least all the ones you have it at the time.

And then I can kind of see the themes emerging, and that helps me then understand what to tell you

and what some of my thoughts are. So that's what we'll do. So start thinking earlier than you would normally

about what some of your questions might be.

So let me first and I I've been told that while many of you were told to go up on the website

and whatever you probably didn't, gee, what a concept. So let me give you a thumbnail.

I'm a University of Wisconsin computer science graduate a long time ago.

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