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I am Tina Seleague, and I play two roles here today.

First, I am the host normally, but today I am also the speaker.

So I'm going to give you a little bit of my background so you know actually who am I besides

the person who usually introduces our other guests.

I am the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and along with my wonderful colleagues Tom Byers and Kathy Eisenhard, who are the faculty directors,

we run the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

And we spend all of our efforts thinking about research and teaching and outreach efforts

all related to high-tech entrepreneurship.

My background is a little bit unusual.

I actually did my PhD over at the med school.

I did have my PhD in neuroscience.

And after that I've done a bunch of different things.

I was a management consultant.

I was a multimedia producer.

I worked at Compact.

I started a company.

And I also have written a whole bunch of books.

And this talk is about the most recent

book I wrote called What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20. Now, there's an interesting story behind

this talk because I actually gave a talk by the same name three years ago right here. At that

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