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There's so much talk about green tech, clean tech, and energy tech right now.

And we've had so many speakers in here talk about that not only this quarter but in past quarters.

There's an extraordinary opportunity today to meet somebody who's actually been doing this,

getting their hands dirty, if you will,

by building a plant and putting it into production, as well as the person who funded them.

The other thing that is kind of interesting about today is that we never tire of having entrepreneurs and their investors here

together I mean most of the time we have an entrepreneur whether they're still

running a startup or maybe their startup has become very very big and they're here

alone like Cheryl last week from Facebook or Mary Baker the week before from Play First.

Or we have the venture capitalist here.

You know, and they're here and so they talk about, you know, how they feel about entrepreneurs.

But every once in a while we've had somebody practicing this at the same time.

And I recall we had Mark Zuckerberg here with his venture capitalist when he first started Facebook,

Jim Breyer, and that was a very interesting session.

And so this is how many happened about once a year, so it's something we like to do,

and I'm so pleased that you came to join us today.

So why don't we start off with saying, when I start with you, Steve?

Tell us a little bit about yourself, you know, rather than me getting the highlights

of your bio.

Tell me a little bit about your career and how we got here today.

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