Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

On this episode, we have Raj Kapoor, chief strategy officer at Lyft, and John Vieira, a director with Ford Motor Company,

and conversation with Pedram Makrian, an adjunct professor in engineering here at Stanford.

Raj focuses on self-driving business opportunities for Lyft, and at Ford, John worked on

global, sustainable business plans, environmental regulations, and evaluating environmental

performance.

Here's John, Raj, and Pedram.

So my memories of this program were actually as a student, where this course was actually

offered in the Termin Auditorium, for those of you who have any recollection

of where that was, it's now turned into a pond on the other side of campus. But I remember sitting

there as a student and just sort of listening to all these amazing speakers. I am not the

amazing speaker. These two gentlemen here are. I've asked John to come all the way from Michigan

to actually join us this afternoon, and Raj from just down the street.

I know them in different capacities and Raj and I used to work together at Mayfield,

which is a venture capital fund and I'll let him talk to you about that.

And John and I are an advisory board on Phillips Petroleum together,

so it's really interesting two completely different perspectives,

but one common theme, which is the future of transportation.

So we're really excited to have this conversation.

But before we get going, I'd love for Raj just to kind of, you know, a couple minutes about yourself and, you know, what you've been doing lately at Lyft.

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