You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.

So as you know, this is the entrepreneurial thought leader theories.

And today's speaker is an absolutely incredible thought leader.

Tim O'Reilly is a master at identifying trends and amplifying them,

and he has a long history of bringing people together in order to give them the tools they need to make this

happen.

Among other things, Tim is the founder of O'Reilly Media, the creator of the first commercial

website, an organizer of the summit that brought together and started the open source movement,

and he's a prime instigator in the Do It Yourself Revolution through Make magazine.

Please join me in welcoming Tim O'Reilly.

Thanks.

Thanks very much for having me.

I like to say after one of these introductions, my reputation exceeds me.

So, and in keeping with that thread, I'll say I like to start my talks with a quote

because, as Oscar Wilde noted, quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The quote I'm going to start you with is one of my favorites.

It's from Edwin Schlossberg, who said the skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

And a lot of what I've done in my career has been to frame things in such a way that people can see what's important about them.

And what I'm going to try to do today is to look at a couple of interesting

startups or projects and pull out some of the things that I find interesting about them

as a way of giving you some perspective both on technology but also on values

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