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hello there I'm Karl Ulrich I'm the vice dean of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Wharton School and I first wanted to start by saying happy new year we we are we have a great turnout tonight in our theory is that everyone woke up on January 1st and said you know I really need to learn about how to scale my venture and so I'm gonna sign up for wharton scale school this is our remarkably this is our seventh wharton scale school event most of you many of you have been here for many of the other of the others six but let me just give a very quick overview of the big idea the big idea is that many universities have rushed into the business of inc you what we call incubating the fruit flies getting new ventures started and we really feel like while that's a super exciting thing to do and we do it very well at wharton that wharton occupies a unique position that allows us to use our very Wharton Asst the things that were great at analytics finance marketing and operations apply those t