Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

Today we are thrilled to welcome Jeff Epstein to ETL.

Jeff went to Yale before getting his MBA from Stanford here at the

GSP. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at the first Boston Corporation. He then held

CFO positions at several companies, including Double Click and Nielsen's, and later became the

executive vice president and CFO of Oracle, one of the

world's largest and most profitable technology companies with a market cap of over $200 billion.

Jeff is now an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he leads Bessemer's CFO advisory

board and helps portfolio

company CEOs and CFOs share best practices. He serves on a huge number of boards and an

impressive list of board of director spots, including Couchbase, Kaiser Permanente, Octa, Tullio, Poshmark, and others. And if that weren't enough,

Jeff is, we're also really blessed to have Jeff as a lecturer with us in Stanford's Department

of Management, Science, and Engineering, where he co-teaches the Lean Launchpad class,

which is an immersive and experiential deep dive into the entrepreneurial process.

Today, Jeff is here to talk to us about what investors want.

And I should say that, as all of you know in the Bay Area, we recently had a storm.

And so we are having some internet connectivity issues, just FYI, but like all good entrepreneurship,

we are going to be adaptive to the situation. But we ask for your patience just FYI, but like all good entrepreneurship, we are going to be adaptive to the situation.

But we ask for your patience, just FYI in the process in case there is some internet latency

as we present.

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