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Invite the entrepreneurship community and the venture community in to stanford all the time is that they have more of that patent recognition. they have more data on which they can connect the dots that will help an aspiring entrepreneur and give him the confidence. sometimes the entrepreneur will say i want to go the modest route as opposed to go for the home run. and somebody who has seen a lot of cases will give them the confidence to really take that step. >> something else i want to stress about stanford if i may. >> please. >> that they do better than any university in the entire country...

Lose is that you can create jobs, and those numbers i just mentioned are staggering numbers. google, sun microsystems, yahoo!, and vm wear, only four and there's many more examples that's 100,000 jobs that exists that wouldn't have existed if those companies hadn't gotten funded by some venture community. >> and i'll ask you to play political observer for a second. when you look at the american political system, do you feel that they understand the sort of things that you're talking about? >> i think they do. i think there are things that could be done. it would not be my area of expertise but...