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So let me say a couple of words about Venoid, although this might be one speaker I don't even have to say anything about.

How many of you've ever heard of Venoed Kosla before?

Okay, that sort of settles it.

From you on television, everybody raised their hand.

And so you have the bio, and of course those watching have the bio

online, but a couple of things I'd like to point out. He did grow up in India. This is a global

short of afternoon, so we're celebrating that. But he came to the United States and went to Carnegie

Mellon and eventually here at Stanford University. He started Sun, was a member of Kleiner Perkins,

but now has his own venture firm with he and his partners, they call it Coastal Ventures.

It's interesting that on this very stage, less than 24 hours ago, if you saw the daily today,

it said candidates' energy policies debated. There was a hot debate in here.

Maybe some of you were here.

So this topic is, there goes, this topic is not only important to those of us who care about entrepreneurship, but it's obviously important to people who care about policy and all sorts of things.

And it's as evidenced by the turnout today.

So without further ado, let's welcome Vinot Kozla.

Thanks, Tom.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Good. We got everybody engaged.

Okay. I'm going to, I didn't know what to talk about, so I decided to talk about a wide number of things.

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