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It gives me great pleasure to introduce today Chinedu Echuero.

He is a partner and the head of principal investing for constant capital ventures,

which is something that he said a minute ago, something he's more enthusiastic about than anything he's done in a really long time.

He's going to tell you all about it.

But the way to think about this is he's excited about building new ventures.

And he sees that there's a lot of inefficiency in the startup process.

As you go from a good idea to building a team to getting funded to taking product to market.

And so his vision is to remove the bottlenecks that exist from taking a good idea to becoming a great company.

So let's welcome to me too.

Tom, thank you very much for the kind introduction.

I flew in from New York last night,

and I'm very excited to be here at Stanford with you guys.

So I'd like to talk about two things while I'm here with. The first

thing is my entrepreneurial journey and share some of the lessons I've learned. And the second

is talk about the power and the potential for creativity. A topic that typically isn't discussed,

it certainly mentioned, but I really do believe

it's an unlimited resource that people really should take more advantage of.

So I'll start with how I came to this country.

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