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It is my sincere pleasure to introduce our first speaker of the year, first speaker of the quarter.

Steve Blank. Steve is a fabulous person. In fact, I had an opportunity to spending the last hour with him chatting about his career, and I promise you this is going to be incredibly enlightening talk.

Steve has been an entrepreneur for 30 years.

He's been involved with eight startups.

And I believe that four of them, he has been a founder

or on the founding team.

So he has lots of different experience,

both of fabulous successes and some interesting failures

along the way as well.

And he has recently, rather recently retired from that, but he's doing

a tremendous number of other things. He works here as part of the Stanford Technology

Ventures program as a professor, as a consulting professor. In addition, he does a lot of

community service. He is the chairman of the California Audubon Society and also

Governor Schwarzenegger appointed him to the Coastal Commission.

So I'm sure you'll hear about some of these things.

Without further ado, Steve Blank.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tina.

Though when listening to that introduction, it makes me realize that eight startups, 30 years,

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