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Shaw Selby works for Boeing, and I met him when he was taking a course called Global

Entrepreneurial Marketing here at Stanford in 2009. He did a project for the Center for Ocean

Solutions for a very big problem that has to do with illegal ocean fishing. That project led

to a series of things that have gotten him a lot of recognition

around the world, a really cool job that he does with National Geographic, and the ability

to really have an impact. And so I'd like us all to welcome back to Stanford. Shaw Selby.

All right. Thanks, Tom.

You know, it's really great to be back on this campus.

College campus, specifically Stanford, have this great optimistic energy about them.

So you'll know what I mean once you graduate and leave and come back.

So yeah, as Tom said, I'm Shaw Selby. I'm an explorer with National Geographic.

So more specifically, I'm an emerging explorer, which is this program that they have where they

look and they find researchers or scientists or artists or even engineers that are doing something that they have where they look and they find researchers or scientists or artists

or even engineers that are doing something that they think could potentially have a big impact

on the world and the future and they bring them into their explorer family. So it's a, it's

pretty cool in that I get the opportunity to call myself an explorer and other explorers are people that you all have heard of.

People like Sylvia Earle and Jane Goodall and Bob Ballard and E.O. Wilson, really, really cool people.

And the other really great thing about it is it's fairly difficult to get in.

You get nominated, you can't apply for it, and they do this big

vetting thing behind the scenes and give you a call one day and ask you be part of the family,

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