That ben jerrys was willing to take a stand on an issue that was not in its own financial selfinterest. It was for the common good. That was the big difference. Business is always taking political stance. Business is a very political animal. It is always lobbying to not raise the minimum wage. Business is always lobbying to not add any more environmental regulation. Business is always looking out for its financial selfinterest. But when business takes a stand for the common good, people stand up and take notice. This is something that is different. That really set ben jerrys on the path to being a different kind of company. And as ben said, soon there after the cold war ended, so it was very successful. [laughter] host i must say, there are most days i have to say i love my job, and today is one day i especially love my job. I got to have this amazing conversation and on behalf of all of us that put this together, we have something for you. [applause] host thank you so much. Mr. Greenfield thank you. Host and look mr. Greenfield i have got to show my this is where its at. [applause] host where do we find ice cream . Back in the hallway . Head down the hallway, ben jerrys ice cream is waiting for you. Mr. Greenfield i will be hanging out, happy to chat. Host thank you so much. Mr. Greenfield thank you. I am looking forward to the next flavor. It is called the 1 , 99 vanilla [chatter] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this Holiday Weekend on cspan, these are our featured programs. Look at farewell speeches and tributes for outgoing members of congress on the white house. Eastern at 12 30 p. M. With Barbara Mikulski and tribute and speeches for Vice President joe biden. At 8 p. M. , christmas at the white house join michelle obama. As she received the official White House Christmas tree. Two or the white house and see this years decorations. Make crafting products with children of military families and finally, the Tree Lighting ceremony. At hear from former house 8 40 p. M. , Speaker John Boehner on the Trump Presidency and his time in the congress and that 9 40, attend the portrait unveiling of outgoing minority leader harry reid, democrat of nevada. Speakers include Hillary Clinton joe biden and charles schumer. On sunday, we hear from retiring member of congress, representative Charles Rangel of new york. At 2 10 p. M. , from the shakespeare theater in capitol hill we take you to the romeo , and juliet wrongful death smock trial where Supreme Court associate Justice Samuel alito serves as trust us. As presiding judge. Then a look at the career of mike pence and his new role as my as Vice President. Watch on cspan. Org and listen on the free cspan radio app. We will have a live discussion on the presidency of barack obama and we will take your phone calls and tweets and facebook questions. The Panel Includes a white house , a Princeton University professor. And a pulitzer prizewinning author. Watch indepth live from noon until 3 p. M. Eastern on sunday on book tv on cspan two. Next, Women Entrepreneurs provide advice to a mostly female audience about innovation, ideas and a look at diversity in Silicon Valley. Speakers include the founder of cloud flair. It is from the Science Museum in Mountain View california. Now for tonights program, the history of computing is a history of much of an error, of entrepreneurship especially in Silicon Valley. We are so connected that it is often hard to tell them apart. We are living through a transformational time. Some have said the most transformational time in history and that transformation is being led by remarkable people. Tonight, we begin to highlight the works at our center in the transformational area. The name exponential evokes the change at the heart of the story. Our new center is undertaking to document and explain some of that work to you tonight and the people who are doing it. We have two great guests. We will take you through their conversations tonight with the executive director marguerite gong hancock. She has been working in the field of entrepreneurship for more than two decades. First at the Stanford Graduate School of business and for us at the computer History Museum. We are delighted to introduce you to her right now. Join me in welcoming marguerite hancock. [applause] marguerite thank you, john. Welcome to the inaugural event kicking off our exponential series featuring founders and visionaries. Silicon valley is home to pioneers of the possible from bill hewlett and David Packard to mark zuckerberg. History and pop culture frequently shaped the transformational stories of Silicon Valley. But what about women . Today, they are starting to actively support Rising Female stars. Entrepreneurs often go unheralded. Female founders raising serious capital jumped in 2015 but still, they are too rare. We have two remarkable women here with us tonight. What can we learn from them who forged their own paths . These entrepreneurs are noteworthy for their innovation and impact by any measure. They also both happen to be women. Let me share five numbers with you. She is a Venture Capitalist, stanford lecturer and entrepreneurship, and selfproclaimed recovering entrepreneur. [laughter] marguerite in 1983 she cofounded Software Company tea maker 14 years as cofounder of ceo. She served at apple and became a Venture Capitalist. 820 million is the number of dollars for investments she serves as operating partner. She is also sought after as an advisor. 37 private companies that she has served as board member at, including five currently. Everything from dm gt to six public companies. She has been named to numerous top lists including top 50 women in tech by Corporate Board member. She is taking the education of the next generation of hundred hours. Entrepreneurs. She received her undergraduate and mba degrees and on a personal note there are two other significant numbers she shared with me. Two plus two. That is the number of kids and rescue dogs in her life. [laughter] join me in welcoming the remarkable heidi roizen. [applause] heidi thank you. Marguerite for our next featured speaker, she is a serial entrepreneur, young Global Leader and cofounder of a leading web performance company. Educated in chemistry at mcgill university, she worked with google and toshiba. Three under an oriole ventures three entrepreneurial ventures founded. 5 million Internet Properties with 12,000 added daily. Eight to 10 of all internet traffic uses cloud flair, selected by wall street journal for two years in a row as most Innovative Technology company. Others include her company in the elite club of unicorns, 1 billion plus a dollar for every private that you founded. That she founded. 2012 is the year she was selected as one of the top 15 women to watch. We are pleased she is an alum of our board at the History Museum and she mentioned to me that 36 and five are the number of months old of her two children. Join me in welcoming to the stage the amazing michel zatlyn. [applause] thank you. Marguerite i am so excited to have you here to kick off this series. You are remarkable in so many ways. I wanted to start with the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey and ask, was there a moment, a person, or an experience that catalyzed you wanting to be announced whenever . To be an entrepreneur . My father was one. I was really lucky. He wasnt successful but he was a happy one. I remember i said i should get a job doing something, he said, why would you do that . For him the idea was that if you could create your own opportunities you could control your life. And you could contribute in ways that were meaningful to you. In ways you couldnt do as part of a company. I was very fortunate to have somebody who believed in that and also believed in me even though i was his female child. He actually used to say to my brothers, much to their dismay, she is going to be the one like me. And i was. Marguerite how that for you . How about for you . Michel i grew up in the middle of canada in a province called discussed called saskatchewan, north of north dakota. People are not in their head to know where it is, which is quite amazing. Good job on geography. I only seen 32,000 people. To 35,000. E grown i was definitely a child who participated in a lot of sports teams, did piano, my parents were big believers in getting involved. When i went to to high school my mom told me about this program called junior achievement. Nobody else was doing it but i went and ended up falling in love with it. It was an exposure to entrepreneurship. We were all from different schools. We spoke with a business idea and execute on it and we ended up choosing, making we literally sawed wooden pieces horse racing games. We literally sawed wooden pieces and made these horse race games and ended up selling them around the city. We ended up winning the award for this and it was amazing. I love being part of a team, i loved coming up with different ideas. I love the idea of selling it to people who wanted it. That was my first exposure to both business and entrepreneurship and i loved it. Horse racing . Michel in saskatchewan. Thats why saskatchewan was really important. We played a lot of cards and a lot of boardgames. It is very cold in the winter. Marguerite such an important part of the museum is educating the next generation and you two have both had special education experiences. Can you tell a little bit about how school has impacted your career . Michel my dad is here tonight. He is visiting from canada. My parents were very strict on they really believed in education and they said that you can do anything in life what you have to do well at school so they were very strict on that. So i did well at school so i could do anything i wanted which was great. I remember that, again, when i grew up a lot of people stayed within the province. It was very common to go to the university of saskatchewan. I got scholarships to go there and i remember my parents saying you can go anywhere but you cannot stay here. They worked really hard to say the world is much bigger than where we were from. And i was lucky that i had parents who pushed all of us. I had two sisters and we all moved outside of saskatchewan which means my parents travel on airplanes a lot. I was lucky that i had parents who pushed me to do that. I got into mcgill, a great skill a great school in canada. It is a very good school and i many say it is the harvard of the north. It is a very good school and i remembered telling all my i was part of a lease sports teams i said i was going to mcgill and studying science. The most common reaction, it was so strange that people would leave the province. Did they have a Science Program . For the budding entrepreneurs in the room, the idea of going against the grain, in a way i have always had to go against the grain because ive had to do things that are different from a lot of people around me. Kind of in the way of being ridiculed for it. I ended up studying science. I ended up working for many years and i originally thought i was going to go to med school but when i realized it didnt want to i fell in love with business. I have a science degree but i was working in business. A lot of the foundations. My parents moved here from montreal. I had a very different background. My dad got the job in the 19th it these, and he used to say, i have been all over the world and ird picked the best place to live. You dont have to do that because we are already here. You think about it in the 50s, and that was an innovative company. I get a kick out of driving down sign isseeing the neon still there, a National Landmark now. I get a kick out of that. That was a very entrepreneurial adventure backed company in its. Ay in the 1950s i was super lucky, pretty driven and in some ways, driven by the fact that i did not want my mother was working at a minimum wage job at the cafeteria when i was in high school and i did not want that in my life and needed today. I gotten to stamford and went there. Had to pay my own way, and then it got my first job of course i was here in the birth of the the computer revolution. I got my first job in 1979, i get out of school, and my major is creative writing. Let me explain something. The idea of what you do after school was not really big in my mind. It was sort of, i love to write, i would be a creative writing person, and then i had to find a job and it turned out like in the want ads the highly sought creative writing major was no one ever. [laughter] interestingly i got this job as the editor of the company newspaper for tandem computers. Before it went public. I ended up going to tandem and my job was to write about all the people at tandem who were doing interesting things. After a year of that i said i dont want to write about other people doing interesting things, i want to do the interesting things. This is not going to motivate me. I looked around and i said everybody is getting ahead, and was either an mba or an engineer and i felt like it was too late for me to be an engineer. There was a Business School down the street so i applied and i joked that i was a diversity candidate which i truly was. There were not a lot at the Business School. Then i just had the amazing fortune to have a Computer Science they didnt call them that back then a programmer who was my older sibling. I started a company with him second year in Business School. I was very fortunate. He said i want to start this company with you in spite of the fact that you are getting an mba. So much for that degree. [laughter] marguerite apologies to those associated with the Business Schools of stanford or harvard. Heidi Michel Michel my michel my brother didnt value michel my brother didnt value it but i did. Lets go forward to Silicon Valley. Is there many opportunities that both of you had that could have stayed on the east coast or returned . Why come here . I was at Business School and we started work on what is now clout flare as a school project. I graduated in 2009 and it was a school project. I was still working at linkedin. Which in june of 2009 would have been a great job. It was 300 people. It has grown tremendously. It would have been a perfectly Wonderful Company but we have this business idea that kept gaining a lot of steam and it was just an idea and we had a lot of conviction around it. When we decided that we were going to keep working on it, a lot of people in boston said you should stay here or go to atlanta because there is a huge Security Community in atlanta. We said we had to be in the bay area. When people said, why . First, we knew if you have a business that requires mental requires Venture Capital this is the place to be. We needed a lot of capital to start our company and since then we have raised 182 million. That original assumption turned out to be true. The second reason we wanted to be here was that we run a large Distributor Network and we help make the internet faster and safer for a to 10 of the internet traffic today. When you work at that scale you need people who have seen internet scale and everyone who has seen internet scale works here. We knew that the talent either already lives here or were very motivated to come to the area because it was known as mecca. That is why we ended up coming here. That is why we started our company here and if i look back, it was absolutely the right choice. The question going forward, that is a different question but back then in 2009 it was absolutely the choice for us and wonderful. [laughter] back then. When i walked uphill to school both ways. In the snow. [applause] 2009, oh my god. [laughter] i didnt want to say the year that i started. It is very funny. To your point on is this the right place to start a company today, i know i am preaching to the choir but if you look at the statistics of the national Venture Capital association that collects information like this, last year there was 54 billion of Venture Capital invested in the united states. 27 billion of that went into the bay area. Are we in the right place . Yes. To me, in 1982 the funny thing is i was here but my brother was not here. [laughter] he was working for the world bank and he was a programmer and he found my brother is this brilliant guy and people would come to him all the time with data they wanted to crunch. He would sit there and write programs to crunch the data. He realized and i am sure some of you are going to say, really . But he had this brilliant idea to abstract the calculations from the data. Once he wrote the calculations because he was working for the world bank and if you were doing something for zimbabwe and you need to do it for some other country, it was probably going to be some of the same formulas so he said im going to abstract these and i