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I was very lucky to be introduced to Hank a few years ago by a mutual friend. He's from Honolulu,

but he is demonstrating that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in every corner of this planet.

As a tradition with us, we put people's bios online so we can minimize the introduction.

So just go, if you haven't already, go take a look at what he's done with Sky Ventures

and the number of different kinds of inventions that he's come up with, but has turned

them into companies.

So without further ado, let's welcome a graduate of Johns Hopkins, a graduate of Harvard University,

but he did his residency here at the his residency here at the Stanford Medical School.

So let's welcome back from Honolulu, Hank Wu.

Hello, everyone. It's great to be here. Can you hear me okay in the back? Yes?

Now, first of all, I want to know how many people are from Hawaii here in this room? How many people have been to Hawaii? How many would like to go to Hawaii? Okay, this room has good judgment. I know that. It's great to be here. I have very fond memories in my days at Stanford. The biggest memory in my head was when I was doing my surgical residency at Stanford Medical Center.

I was resident, chief resident at Stanford. I was so poor that I bought a Cadillac for about $600.

And it was a great car except for the fact that it didn't have a reverse gear.

So I could only drive forward but not backwards.

So it took a lot of extra time to look for parking stalls

where I could drive forward at the end of my shift.

And the headlights didn't work.

So when I'm driving on the freeway, I have to turn on the emergency blinker

so I could seat the road every other second, basically.

But I have really fond memories.

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