very clear she was unusual. i've taught thousands of students, probably tens of thousands of students at stanford. and i knew right away. but i was dealing with something very, very different. chani robinson, the head of the science department at stanford, leaves his tenure position to work for her. just thought that this woman was something special, you know, gazing into her eyes and realizing that he was. talking to the next steve jobs or bill gaines. there were some other names mentioned during the course of our conversation like archimedes. actually originally did not intend to drop out of stanford, but i wasn't going to any classes and so then, logistically it just seemed like a wisdom money. the question was as an 18 year old. how do you go about the process of convincing people that you know what you're doing, and that you can pull it