You are listening to the Draper Fisher-Jervinson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar,

brought to you weekly by Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.

Today's speaker is Greg Ballard, President and CEO of Gloomobile. Greg has been at

Gloomobile for three years and has a long history as a CEO of many gaming, entertainment, and

media companies, including 3DFX, My Family, and Warner Custom Music. Greg did his undergraduate

work in political science and has a law degree from Harvard University.

His talk is entitled Confessions of a Serial Silicon Valley CEO.

Thank you, Tina. It's great to be here and if it takes me a few seconds to get used to standing here, it's

because I used to sit in the back. And it's just a little odd to be this far in the front.

So if you see me sort of sneaking around to the back, you'll know why.

I originally was just planning on talking to you about Glue Mobile, because we're a company right now that's reasonably hot in Silicon Valley. A lot of people are asking questions about the company. A lot of opportunities right now for me

to go out and speak about what we're doing. We make games for cell phones, basically, and we do it

on a global basis. We do it as much in Korea and China and Malaysia and Thailand as we do

in the United States and in Europe. We are one

of a handful of global companies that have developed the capability of doing this on a

worldwide basis. And that gets me an occasion to talk about the company a fair amount.

I don't get a chance to talk about myself very often. And when I go home at night, there's

certainly nobody there who wants to hear about it.

So for the next hour, you're going to hear me talk about the lessons that I have learned while in Silicon Valley.

And the most embarrassing thing is that I looked at what I had written at the end of this and realized that after the 30 or so years that I've been in business, I don't have all that many insights.

So we're going to spend a lot of time talking about

the handful of insights that I have,

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