This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader series.

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Welcome everybody to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University.

ETL, as you know, is a seminar for aspiring entrepreneurs at Stanford.

This is a very special ETL, and we're coming with a watch party here.

ETL, as you all know, is presented by STVP, the Stanford Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering, and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.

I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management science and engineering department at Stanford, and a

director at Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups. Today, we are thrilled to welcome

virtually Andy Dunn to ETL. Now, all, there is so much to talk about with Andy that I'm going

to give a little bit more of an involved introduction, just so that we can spend the limited time

we have with Andy on the more meaningful topics of today. And also because I want to create room

for all of you, if you have any questions, to ask Andy questions and start thinking of those questions.

We'll turn it over to the students in about 30 minutes. But Andy is the son of a Midwestern high school history teacher, father, and an immigrant

Punjabi Indian ultrasound nurse mother, who's an immigrant who came to the United States,

and they created Andy.

Andy grew up in a solidly middle class family in the suburbs of Chicago

and even today is a diehard Cubs fan. He was preternaturally smart. He skipped the third grade,

but school was not always easy. He was teased with a moniker from a student in school called

calling him a windu, a white Hindu,

early on. And I think that sort of foreshadowed Andy's ability to straddle between worlds that

oftentimes don't overlap. But Andy went on to go to Northwestern University and graduated with

a bachelor's degree in economics and history, and then went on to get a

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