Jessica Livingston Introduces Startup School SV 2014

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good morning hello everyone welcome I'm Jessica Livingston with Y combinator we're going to get started now and today's a really special [Applause] day today is the 10th startup School we've ever done it's pretty amazing to think we've been doing this for a decade out of C curiosity was anyone at the first like rainy muddy day at Harvard in 2005 any one person that's so cool woo anyway we've gotten as you can attest it's gotten much more higher production value we actually have this beautiful carpeting on the stage today so we're excited and we have a great lineup of speakers so thank you all I know a lot of you traveled here to come and I hope you have a great day um so we're going to get started we have Ron Conway of SV Angel as our first uh guest speaker and there are three remarkable things about Ron first of all he knows everyone in and everything about the world of startup investing he was basically the first internet investor so um he knows a lot of stuff and he's also rare in that he's totally upstanding um you can trust him implicitly and you can't really say that about all investors at all and lastly he works his butt off um he does an unbelievable amount of work for the startups he funds most of which he's not able to even discuss but we're going to hope to get a few of his stories out of him today um I'm also delighted to announce that Paul Graham is making a guest appearance this morning to interview Ron