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Thanks, Tom, and good afternoon, everyone.

It's great to see you, especially when it's such a gorgeous day outside.

So it is wonderful to be here again for the entrepreneurial thought leader seminar, particularly during entrepreneurship week.

And I am absolutely delighted to share the stage with three dynamic and inspiring entrepreneurs.

Jay Cohen Gilbert, Bart Houlehann, and Andrew Kassoy, who you have full written bios of,

are perhaps the most dynamic and exciting social entrepreneurs that I have worked with. And I have actually worked with a very wide range of social entrepreneurs around the

world. They became friends as Stanford undergrads back in the late 80s.

And after graduating, they all took respectable mainstream jobs.

Jay was a management consultant at McKinsey.

Bart went into investment banking, initially at Stonebridge Associates.

Andrew went into private equity at Credit Swiss First Boston.

So for those of you who are thinking about what you're going to do, these guys all initially

took a pretty mainstream path. Jay was the first to get bit by the startup bug. And in the early 90s,

he co-founded and won a basketball footwear and

apparel company. He was initially in charge of product and marketing there and then became

the CEO of that company. Around 94, he managed to talk Bart into leaving the investment banking world and joining him at And One.

And Bart played a number of roles during his career there in finance and operations as CFO, C.O, C.O, and president of And One. And in 2005, they sold the company.

Andrew continued in the private equity world

for 16 years in a variety of firms, most recently as a partner

at MSD Real Estate Capital, which is an affiliate of Michael Dell's $12 billion

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