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We're delighted to be here because we've got an entrepreneurial thought leader among us today, Donna Niviski, who's somebody who's been a personal hero of mine for more than a decade.

Donna is actually one of our own graduates. She got her bachelor's degree in industrial engineering here at the School of Engineering at Stanford.

Went on to do things in international business early in her career.

Got a Harvard MBA, came back to the Valley, worked for Sun Microsystems, and then was the

VP of Marketing for Clarify.

Did a number of other startups as a venture partner with more David Al Ventures. And in addition to taking roughly three startups a year

from birth to almost teenage,

I guess would be the way that we think about it.

So two engineers in a garage with a PowerPoint deck and some code,

Donna would actually create customers and revenues

for those companies and then hire her successor. She did that for a number of years with MDV. And in the last four years,

she also team taught global entrepreneurial marketing with us here at Stanford. And it's been

an utter joy to work with Donna in that capacity. If any of you were thinking of taking that course

in winter and spring, she'll still be team teaching that course with us next winter and spring.

In addition to her current responsibilities, which began, I think, last March,

Donna became the CEO of Big Tent Design. Now you all can read faster than I can talk. You can see the things that describe her venture there.

It is a totally cool company that creates online communities that help people, whether

you're parents and families that are worried about how to create a good community for your children and for each other,

or whether you're the global leaders, entrepreneurs, and altruist network,

Big Tent has a solution that is very helpful for you. So, Donna, you've

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