You are listening to the Draper Fisher-Jervinson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar,

brought to you weekly by Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.

Today we have a wonderful double header. We have both Ray Lane and Ron Bloom here.

Ray Lane is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Buyers, and Ron Bloom is a CEO and founder of Podshow.

And I'm going to interview them today. The focus is going to be on the relationship between a founder of a company

and the venture capitalists who invest in them. So, welcome.

Thank you.

Great. So the first question I want to ask both of you is you both have had really interesting

and exciting careers. And instead of my introducing you and sort of telling

a story that probably isn't so accurate, I'd love each of you to tell a little bit of background

of how you ended up on this stage here.

How long do you have?

As long as you want.

You want me to go first.

So I've spent my entire career in technology.

Born and raised on the East Coast, grew up in Pittsburgh, educated in Pittsburgh

in Pittsburgh and West Virginia.

I went to West Virginia University in Carnegie Mellon.

I still have an association with Carnegie Mellon today. I'm on their board of trustees. So I'm a

I'm a router for Carnegie Mellon and Stanford Partnerships, if we can

generate them. But focused early on computer science technology,

IBM, EDS, spent 12 years with Booz Allen as a senior partner there running the information technology practice.

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