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You don't look at a résumé and you’re like,

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"Oh, this person's qualified to be an entrepreneur."

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I realized that I was just as qualified

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as any of these people.

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And so, if I wanted to be in a company like that,

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I could start it.

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I went to Stanford for undergrad.

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And so, people sometimes ask me like,

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"Oh, is that where you

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got the entrepreneurial bug?"

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And, I think the crazy thing was that

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it almost was the anti-entrepreneurship influence

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from Stanford because the people that I

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had in my vision didn't look like me

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and didn't behave like me.

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And, if anything, I think they actually

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prevented me from seeing that as a path for myself.

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And, in particular, I think the risk profile of,

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like, you have this vision of an entrepreneur

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as somebody who is tinkering in a garage

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and is not making rent and eating Cuppa noodles.

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I don’t know that that was a risk profile

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that I was comfortable with.

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I think there are ways that you can be

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an entrepreneur without,

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you know, kind of being that really crazy risky person.

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You know, I’m very lucky that

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I was able to find that for myself,

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and I hope that others also can see

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that entrepreneurship can be a path for them.