Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneural Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

We're delighted to welcome Miriam Rivera to ETL.

Miriam is the co-founder and managing director of Ulu Ventures, a seed stage venture fund focused on

IT startups.

Previously, she was vice president and deputy general counsel at Google, where she joined as

the company's second attorney.

Her work to simplify contracts help Google scale from an 85 million to 10 billion

company in five years. Miriam earned her A.B.A.M. and J.D. MBA degrees from Stanford University.

She just couldn't get enough of Stanford. She was also a trustee for the university

and serves on Stanford's lead counsel and the

Stanford Law School Venture Fund.

She's been honored with the Stanford Medal awarded to fewer than 1% of Stanford alumni.

She's on the investment committee of Acumen Fund America and is also a Kaufman Foundation board

member and an advisor to the launch with GS Advisory Council,

a Goldman Sachs initiative to reduce the investing gap

for Black and Latinx founders.

Welcome, Miriam.

Thank you, Heidi.

It's wonderful to be here with you.

So great to have you here.

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