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So with that, I'd like to introduce our final entrepreneurial thought leaders for the winter quarter.

And I feel very lucky to be able to do this introduction because Polly and Liz represent two of the most extraordinary global information technology companies in the world.

Liz, who is one of the main partners at Accenture,

and in fact as a global managing director there,

has worked with clients around the world, and Accenture,

if you don't know, it is one of the most resilient

and entrepreneurial technology companies in the entire world.

I've been admiring their work since 77, 78,

and it's a company that continues to reinvent itself

and do fabulous things for companies and clients

to improve their performance.

And then we have Salesforce.com,

a newer entrant into the world,

but certainly one that has really changed the way

that we all think about software, and many of you are probably keeping your customer relationship management data in a little database from Salesforce.

So without any further ado, I want to turn it over to Liz, who will be interviewing Polly, because the two of them have lots to share share and I promise that I'd make my remarks

brief so they'll do theirs and then we'll turn it over to questions. Thanks everybody. Let's

welcome them to Stanford. Thank you. Thank you very much, Tom, and thanks to all of you. Boy,

this is – I haven't been in front of a classroom in a long time. I don't know about you. But I have a daughter who just started in college and I, you know, sat and threw some

classes last year when she was picking, but I never was on this side, and I must say it's

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