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I get the honor of introducing Steve Wesley.

As we've talked about before, the handout in the bio is up on the website for all of those of you out in the digital world.

But just for those of you here in the audience, let me just remind you to tell you a little bit about him.

It's such an honor to do this.

He's a managing partner and founder of the Wesley Group, as you can see. Well, actually, you didn't put that logo up.

That bears his name. It's a venture capital firm, and I'm looking forward to hearing their

strategy and all about that. But what's really cool about Steve, and I know a number of

you've seen him speak

on campus because he sometimes is here talking about his service, his public service. In fact,

he's demonstrated that. He started in D.C. a long, long time ago in the federal government,

but he was the controller, in other words, the chief fiscal officer of the state of California for four years.

It even ended up running for governor eventually just a few years ago.

And so he's had a really wonderful dual career.

Not only in Silicon Valley being an entrepreneur, he was the senior vice president of eBay for many years, but also with this service to the state as well as the federal government.

So without much further ado, let's welcome back to campus because he has a bachelor's from Stanford as well as an MBA.

Steve, thanks for coming today.

So I'm delighted to be here.

And as Tom said, I've spent a lot of time at Stanford.

I was an undergraduate here.

I came back and got my MBA here.

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