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This week's speaker is Matthew Rabinowitz. He comes to us all the way originally from South Africa,

but he's a real member of the Stanford community. He got his bachelor's degree, his master's degree,

and his PhD here. And in fact, he's also taught for eight years as a lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

While he was completing his dissertation, he started his first company, which was called

Pan-Up, which was intelligent online merchandising company, and they sold it for $100 million.

Soon after that was sold sold he started his second company

which is called Rossum which developed location technology using TV signals to

augment GPS well in 2003 his life totally changed a family member had a child that

had a severe genetic disability and the child died and he he realized he needed to take action. And so

he ended up starting Natera to really address this problem. We're going to hear about it today.

This company has had such an amazing impact in its short life so far that it actually just won

the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award. Let's hear Matt tell us all about it.

Welcome.

Thank you very much.

I see myself with these speakers.

It's like I'm starting a strip routine.

Or maybe I am. I don't know.

Good afternoon, everyone.

It's a real pleasure to be here.

I was told by Tina and co that I should talk about past experiences, which might convey some lessons. And I had to think really hard about what I might talk about

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