Welcome to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar.

The Stanford Seminar for Aspiring Entreprene aspiring entrepreneurs or ETL.

ETL is brought to you by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center,

and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.

I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department

and the Director of alchemist and

accelerator for enterprise startups and I am so excited today to kick off ETL for the spring with one of our own Stanley Tang.

Stanley is the co-founder, chief product officer, and head of labs for DoorDash. How many people have used DoorDash?

Okay, so it really needs no introduction, but for those who don't know, DoorDash. How many people have used DoorDash? Okay, so it really needs no

introduction, but for those who don't know, DoorDash is now, I think, an $80 billion company

focused on really revolutionizing Last Mile delivery, and it's really a phenomenal

logistics company that has really transformed how the world thinks about logistics. But what's especially great for me about Stanley is that he's not only becoming an icon of entrepreneurship,

but he's also really in his heart also a student of entrepreneurship.

Quite literally, he was in your seat a decade ago, in the same class, attending E.T.L.

When he was a Stanford undergrad studying computer science.

And he started DoorDash after Stanford, after he majored in computer science.

But even more impressive, it was before that, when he was a high school student growing up in Hong Kong,

he actually authored an anthology of interviews of internet entrepreneurs when he was in high school.

So this is a real full circle moment where the student has become the teacher.

And Stanley today is going to share with us some pearls of wisdom and insight from his own

entrepreneurial journey.

So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Stanley Tang to ETL.

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