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We are delighted to have Ron Gutman, the founder of HealthTap, with us here today.

He's a familiar face here on campus, a 2005 graduate of the Graduate School of Business here,

and one of the founders of a program called Be Well here at Sanford. Anyone participate in Bewell?

Yeah. For a lot of the faculty and staff, it's an incredible program that came out of a lot of

interdisciplinary research that Ronna had done with his colleagues and faculty members during

his time here at Stanford.

After his stint here in school, he went on to a found HealthTap with the mission of improving

not only the life expectancy of people around the globe, but also the quality of life and

the immediate access to not only quality healthcare information, but also doctors.

On top of this, he's been able to combine the power of technology with the power of the immense amounts of data and the power of good that it can harness.

And on the side as well, something that's really cool is that he's not only an angel investor, but he's also a writer and wrote a whole book about the power of smiling.

So with that, we are delighted to have Ron join us today.

I hope you'll enjoy the talk and ask him a lot of questions.

But without further ado, I'd like to welcome Ron Gutman.

Thank you. Thank you.

It's so good to be back. This time on this side of the auditorium, I, you know, love being back on campus. I see some great familiar faces, and it's amazing to be back.

And, you know, today I thought about what would have been most valuable to me, you know, if I sat in your seats.

And then I said to myself, why would I need to think about it?

I just need to go back, you know, and think about it when I sat and watched ETO talks when I was in your seats.

And that was not too long ago.

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