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🗓️ 11 May 2011
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0:00.0 | You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. |
0:10.0 | You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.standford.edu. |
0:16.0 | It is my sincere pleasure to introduce our two speakers today. |
0:24.0 | We have Mike Krieger and Kevin's sister, and I know them actually very, very well, because |
0:29.9 | both of them were Mayfield Fellows. |
0:32.5 | In fact, Mike was a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and Kevin in 2005. |
0:37.6 | They took part in this nine-month work study program |
0:42.2 | that we do. |
0:43.4 | And essentially is an opportunity for students |
0:47.0 | to get a deep dive experience in entrepreneurship. |
0:49.6 | During the first quarter, it's classroom exercises |
0:53.4 | and a lot of case studies about different aspects |
0:55.6 | of entrepreneurship. |
0:56.9 | During the summer they work in startup companies, and in the fall they come back and each |
1:01.3 | present a case study about the company where they work that summer. |
1:06.8 | And the summer when Kevin was in the program, he worked at Odeo, which ended up becoming the precursor to Twitter. |
1:13.1 | And Mike worked at Fox Marks, which is now called, those who are called? |
1:17.8 | Xbox. |
1:18.4 | Okay, great. |
1:19.7 | So the two of them would not have known each other if it had not been for their experience in the Mayfield Fellows Program. |
1:26.6 | They have done amazing things since them. |
1:29.7 | Kevin worked at Google for a couple of years, |
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