Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

Hello, everyone.

Good afternoon.

I am your host for today.

I'm Melissa Valentine. I'm an associate professor of management science

and engineering here at Stanford. My own research is how technology changes people's jobs.

So that's certainly true for entrepreneurs and certainly true for our founders today,

who are both founders of digital, digital health companies.

There is also special significance to the themes for today, as you'll see.

Both Kiki and Jerica run companies that provide services for communities who have been impacted by policy change.

So let me say specifically, Plume and Hay Jane are both reaching people whose lives have been

dramatically affected by changes in public policy at both of federal and state levels.

So that would include the overturning of Roe v. Wade and state laws that restrict gender affirming health care for transgender people.

So there's special significance to these themes and the staff at ETL, the producers, had sort of a visionary idea to use this as an opportunity to think about how entrepreneurship can be a vehicle for change,

how entrepreneurship can be a way of reacting to public policy, and how entrepreneurship can be a

vehicle for sort of influencing and driving social change. So that's a really interesting

and provocative and really important topic. I think it's great that ETL wanted to kind of

host this conversation.

I'm really honored to be a part of it. That's the significance of today. And with that, let me tell

you a little bit more about our founders who are very lucky to have today. So let me first introduce

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