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It brings me great pleasure to welcome to Stanford. Jack Dorsey, who is, as you know, the co-founder and chairman of the board of Twitter, and the co-founder and CEO of Square. Jack, welcome to Stanford. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

It's an honor to be here.

I get a lot of my inspiration from walking around,

and this is a gorgeous campus to walk around.

I've spent many hours walking around this campus,

driving down here specifically just to do so because I was not fortunate enough to go here.

I wanted to start with a story of entrepreneurship.

My father, when he was 19 years old, he was living in St. Louis, Missouri. And he was a pretty good cook. He knew how to make pizzas. And he had a best friend who also knew how to cook pretty well as well.

So they decided to create a company together and to call it two nice guys.

And it was a pizza restaurant.

And I think the main reason that they started this pizza restaurant is my dad is,

you know, fascinating.

We're from St. Louis, so there's a lot of meat and potatoes.

So it was a personal challenge to him to see how much meat he could get on one pizza,

which he called the Tim Special.

And they started the restaurant.

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