Theo Baker
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So Sundar Pichai is a Stanford success story, got his master's here.
And I just I sort of chuckled myself imagining how many like lawyers and PR people have reviewed that speech before we're going to hear it.
It was interesting, right?
Stanford.
In the four years that I've been here, the commencement speakers have been two billionaires and two athletes, right?
Which I guess says something about, you know, who they're picking.
They choose people who are going to stick to the company line.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
I don't know.
No prediction.
I don't know.
It is a giant real estate firm effectively controlling huge amounts of land.
It is a sports league, a professional sports league.
It's a hospital system.
It's a repository of historical thought.
It's the place where teenagers are going about their coming of age.
It's a supercharged science lab.
Like, it's all of these things, and yet it says it is one thing.
And that sort of cultural challenge, what actually is Stanford?