Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

Well, hello everyone. My name is Emily Ma and I'd like to welcome you to another

Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders' Series lecture presented by STVP,

the Entrepreneurship Center in Stanford School of Engineering, and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.

I am so excited to introduce Josh Geigel to all of you today.

Josh is the co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, a company dedicated to making Hyperloop transportation

of reality. Josh founded the company in 2014 when Hyperloop was an idea on a whiteboard in a

garage. It's kind of how all good stuff starts. And a little over two years later, Virgin Hyperloop

had built a full-scale prototype. Then in November 2020, Josh became famous in history because he was one of Hyperloos' first passengers.

Previously prior to that, he was at SpaceX. He developed the world's first reusable rockets and led

successful testing of six different rocket engines that are now used. He then shifted his focus

to powering the Earth with revolutionary waste heat to power energy technology leading research

activities at Echogen power systems. Welcome, Josh. Super excited to hear about your journey. I know you've

done a lot of thinking around vision, mission, and purpose.

So handing it over to you for a presentation I can't wait to hear.

Excellent. Thank you. Emily, thanks everybody for having me here. It's excited to talk about,

you know, the journey of entrepreneurship. So I thought I would try it a little bit different because

so often we hear about the professional side of entrepreneurship and the things you do within the

company. But there are so many things from the personal side and the experiences you draw on

before you actually start the company that make you who you are, that have you wired the way

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