 All right, so Mike now has ten minutes. It was gonna be strict ten minutes And I'll point out that he did not fall asleep once during this entire day, right? Now I have not Confirmed with the Berkeley people, but I think I hold the record because he only fell asleep once during my thesis defense It's usually three times So this is so I've learned now if you want him not to fall asleep just talk about him all day, right? So All right, you Mike you have ten minutes you have the floor and as usual the microphone is too low Well, I want to thank all of you for coming I'm just really moved and I especially want to thank Whoever put up all the money to make to make all the food happen and I'm sure Andy had nothing to do with it And but I'm I'm I'm really moved and It was mentioned at the beginning Jerry held said we were lucky that we happened to You know choose eunuchs because Ingress wouldn't have been anything without that piece of luck So I just want to go through a few Vignettes in my life That were really significant, but weren't planned So so the first one was You know I graduated from college in 1965 and That was exactly the year the Vietnam War is going full blast and the draft still exists So my choice is when I graduated from college was go to Vietnam go to graduate school go to Canada or go to jail So it doesn't you don't have to be very smart to figure out which one I chose But I had no interest in going to graduate school when when I got out of college There was a TV show called Route 66 Which those of you who were pretty old may remember it's about two guys who drive around in a Corvette Then have all kinds of interesting things happen to them So I wanted to figure out what to do with my life by doing the Route 66 thing and that wasn't available So I sat out the war in graduate school And I didn't want to be there. I would never have gone to graduate school. I'd have never been here That was truly significant and had nothing to do and the only thing it had to do with was Richard Nixon Second second thing that was really significant was fast-forward to 1971 and so I'm an assistant professor at Berkeley and as people have said you have five or six years to get famous at whatever and so the clock is running and My as people have mentioned my PhD thesis is truly ridiculous And it was just completely evident that that there were no two or three papers to come out of Doing more of the same stuff so so I had no way of Leveraging my PhD thesis You know largely thanks to my PhD thesis advisor What's more I was I was a terrible writer and So you have to immediately start writing papers for for publication doing grant proposals and So the first two years were just really painful at trying to figure out how to write So I had to choose a new area to do something in and learn how to write and as Jenny Dugan told me recently Even without these problems an assistant professor is basically like being a graduate school student and having to teach So I hated being an assistant professor. I absolutely hated it and The thing that was monumentally significant was Gene Wong Who who you heard from whose picture you saw a few minutes ago? Telling me what let's let's start doing this data by database stuff it was all him and That was such a lucky accident and so he took me under his wing and we started doing Ingress Now it didn't bother either of us that we had no database experience no system software experience No programming experience Well, you know here it didn't bother us that we knew nothing about the mountain We are going to try and climb And I think all of the system are and Ingress people, you know This was the totally green field and and I think if I had any idea how hard it was to build a database system I don't think I ever would have started But I think you know that the takeaway is that was a really fortuitous thing that happened and It didn't occur to us to think we couldn't do it and I think that's the same true for the system our folks So that was just truly significant and was a complete accident The third thing that I think is was really significant was as has been mentioned this morning There were a whole bunch of relational database projects at the time and almost all of the academic ones would get a little bit of stuff working and then stop and about 1975 We decided that we were going to make Ingress really work. So You know we didn't I didn't realize is at the time But you put in the first 90% of the effort and you get 90% of the way there And then you put in the next 90% of the effort to get the the remaining 10% And we continued to make the system really work And I think that Jerry Held and Eric Alman and Peter Krebs the people you mentioned this morning did all the heavy lifting And I think that was just I don't know hardly anybody in academia ever puts in the remaining 90% and I have no idea why we did it and You know it it wasn't a deliberate There was nothing deliberate about it, you know, we just for some reason kept going I Think the fourth thing that was I think really significant was about 1978 Ingress was very popular in universities because of the acceptance of Unix and so Arizona State University Was considering putting their student records database up on Ingress in 1978 all 40,000 students worth and they could get over they had to run an Unsupported operating system from AT&T They could get over they had to run an unsupported database system from these guys at Berkeley But the project went down in flames when they realized that there was no cobalt available for Unix And they were a cobalt shop So it just became really clear that if we're gonna have an impact unsupported operating system unsupported database system and no commercial environment were just deadly so we had to start a company and You know, we had to move it out of the university and I of course at the time had no idea how to do this So you just assume that you can figure it out and start doing it And I think the the secret of success is to just not not realize that things are hard and so so we managed to start Ingress Corporation and the whole model that Has been mentioned that every other company I've ever done has been the same model Because once you say boy this stuff works you can do this more than once that sort of everything else sort of followed and so I think the takeaway is Never think something's hard because everything is always hard and you just you just do it and and luck has a lot to do with it and you know, and I think the issue of luck is you may have to tee up more than one ball and Sooner or later, you're gonna get lucky. So I feel just incredibly blessed The database management has turned out to be really important. It wasn't anything I ever chose and that I am where I am because I would not have chosen it and so Somebody mentioned that that one thing I've said is that you're you're driving down the freeway And you see an opportunity to shift left into a faster lane You know, you can either choose to do it or not and at that moment Shift left and see what happens. So thank you very much for coming