You are listening to the Draper Fisher-Jervinson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar,

brought to you weekly by Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.

You know, without further ado, let's welcome John, but I want to tell you that we're welcome back to campus.

If you notice in the handout and perhaps online, the Flyers, he's a Stanford graduate.

What I love about that is he's a graduate of the Humanities School, not the Engineering School.

So it shows that we embrace all schools here

in the engineering school.

And that was his undergraduate degree,

and of course his graduate degree was in the law school.

So let's give a big welcome to John back to campus.

John?

Well, thank you, Tom. and I can't tell you guys how delighted I am and honored to be here at the engineering school.

You know, I graduated from political science, the humanities, and I just never got near the engineering school. And I also have to tell you, the one degree I regret not getting while I was at Stanford was engineering.

So for all of you guys that are getting that degree, it is a phenomenal move.

I will also tell you that it's just fun always to come back to campus.

I'll give you a little bit of my background. It's, you know, all-inspiring to be standing here before you as a substitute for Larry Sonsigni,

you know, who is one of the top corporate securities lawyers, not only the technology industry, but the country.

But I feel a little better than I'm standing here as a last lecturer right before finals when I know that the odds of anyone sitting around the campus actually watching this thing are pretty slim.

So hopefully everyone's studying for their finals, but we'll watch enough to get the gist of it.

But in any event, let me just give you a little bit about my background.

And I want to talk a little bit about the firm and some of the lessons learned,

some of the observations I've made through my 20 years here in the Silicon Valley.

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