Stanford University

“While I was at Stanford, I was able to go out and train in the athlete training center, and I would show up with my straps and hook them up, you know, in this world-class training facility, and over the course of six or eight months, I mean, darn near every on…”

“When the faculty would meet at the beginning of the year to plan the curriculum, even though I was the head of all of the computing facilities, both administrative and the curriculum computing I went and had lunch with the faculty wives because where they had …”

“But Stanford said, no, you cannot license this technology. They would not entertain any licensing. We had done our part, and we had taken the government's money. This is all public domain. We'd invented all of these wonderful things, but the Office of Technolo…”

“We ended up paying them, I think, a very fair royalty for the first Gosh, I want to say three million dollars a product or something. Very fair royalty. And we had to fix their network for three years.”

“Officially? Absolutely not. We were definitely under the radar, and we kept it under the radar, and it wasn't until one day, I think it was by, Became the Stanford University Network.”

“I mean, I was paid half of what my predecessor made, and I was paid a third of what my successor was paid.”

“The people who are the entrepreneur types at Stanford were very different than kind of how I saw myself, and so it took a really long time, I think, for me to realize that entrepreneurship would be a good path And I think there's a lot of other people out ther…”

“So, at Stanford, I got there, it was 2008, I was 24 years old and very quickly. I knew it was where I needed to be. Primarily because I saw the other 24 year olds not only making millions of dollars, but fundamentally changing the world.”

“I created a website, I was driving burgers around and to campus. This is, that was my senior year in particular.”

“We built our own internet we maintained our own internet, we built our own printer interfaces, we built our own computer terminals.”

“We were definitely under the radar, and we kept it under the radar, and it wasn't until One day, I think it was by 1981, our time-sharing Ethernet became the Stanford University Network.”

“One of the people had written the first spell checker and typed in the entire dictionary himself.”

“We ended up paying them, I think, a very fair royalty for the first, gosh, I want to say three million dollars a product or something. Very fair royalty. And we had to fix their network for three years.”

“I really wanted to go to NYU, and there's no way in my mind that I would have been able to, like, fail, or suck, I'd say, as hard.”