You were listening to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

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So it's a real pleasure to get underway now with our guests today.

Eric Strasser is a partner at more David Al Ventures, and he leads, he created their

clean tech practice and he leads that practice for them. In addition to his work there, he's

actually been an advocate or an evangelist for clean tech investing across Silicon Valley

and in the venture community in general.

So it's a real pleasure.

It's a timely set of issues around clean tech investing.

I don't know how many saw the New York Times magazine piece this weekend covering a lot of what's

going on in this space as being, you know, very exciting, a whole new sector of the economy

that's opening up. Eric is actually an alum of Stanford

uh... thankfully he uh... earned his PhD at Stanford as well as his masters

uh... did his undergraduate at Harvey Mudd College

but uh... probably more important than anything else he was one of the

founding

uh... principles behind the entrepreneurial thought leadership series

back in the day. We won't talk about years. But he helped found this effort, and it's a pleasure

really almost like coming home for you, isn't it, to be here today. So let's dive right in

and see what he has to say for himself. But please help me welcome Eric to E.T.L.

Thank you.

So maybe we could just start at a high level, and maybe you could tell the students about

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