Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneural Thought Leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

On this episode, we have Elaine Wary, co-founder of Mibo, an instant messaging and social networking service acquired by Google.

Prior to Mibo, Elaine worked at synaptics, designing input devices and leading human factors research.

Here's Elaine.

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be here.

It just, it's, I was, it wasn't so long ago I'd like to think that I was in your shoes.

And when I was thinking about all the different things that I wanted to talk about today,

so many things came to mind and eventually I decided that what I really wanted to be able to share today

is something that I don't think you're going to be able to get anywhere else. It was certainly not something that I was able to find

for many, many years. But what I want to share today is I want to talk about what I believe might be

the future steps of your career. And I want to be able to paint a picture. I want to be able to make it

real. I want to share with you. I'm not going to be able to

predict all the things that are going to happen, but I want to share with you an emotional

experience of what it's like to go through all of the different levels within an organization

and within your career. So with that, Ravi just gave me the warmest introduction ever, but

hi, I'm Elaine something that was

omitted originally I grew up on a goat farm in southwest Missouri my mother

she was a nurse she was a goat judge and to everyone's surprise I did not

follow in her footsteps but instead I ended up out here in California

learning how to code, graduating with a degree

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