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Today, we've got two people who could take the whole time each by themselves, but they happen to be good friends.

The first is a colleague of ours here in Stanford Technology Ventures Program, who also teaches at Cal,

who is also a serial entrepreneur here in Silicon Valley, who has started eight startups, and who also teaches at Cal, who is also a serial entrepreneur here in Silicon Valley, who has

started eight startups, and who also has a best-selling high-tech book on marketing that

you may remember that Mike talked about last week.

This is a fantastic book and one that I recommend to those of you who are interested in figuring

out how to create products that customers actually want to buy.

So that's the one.

And you may say, Steve Blank, besides being famous and a great professor and a great entrepreneur,

what else, and a great author, what else has he got to his credit? He happens to be, how many years were

you a friend of Jesse before? Five years with Jesse Fink. Now, Jesse Fink has also distinguished

himself in the world of entrepreneurship in different venues. How many of you have ever used

Priceline? Priceline. Okay. This man is one of the co-founders of Price Line.

And how many of you are interested in clean tech ventures of one kind or another?

Hands up high.

In a second or third or fourth or fifth iteration,

professionally, Jesse actually did something that has been a lifelong passion for him,

and I believe his spouse, he put together a firm, co-founded a firm that invests in the environment

and things that are socially responsible.

The name of that firm is Mission Point Capital.

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