[82lsju]

Lily Sarafan '03 to succeed Jerry Yang of president of the BoT

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0...f-trustees

[82lsju]

Lily Sarafan '03 to succeed Jerry Yang of president of the BoT

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0...f-trustees

[McKenwood]

Lily Sarafan '03 to succeed Jerry Yang of president of the BoT

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0...f-trustees

Jerry Yang is probably happy his tenure is over. What a stressful time.

Most important question for Ms Sarafan: Do you have football season tickets?

[McKenwood]

Lily Sarafan '03 to succeed Jerry Yang of president of the BoT

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0...f-trustees

Jerry Yang is probably happy his tenure is over. What a stressful time.

Most important question for Ms Sarafan: Do you have football season tickets?

[82lsju]

Lily Sarafan '03 to succeed Jerry Yang of president of the BoT

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0...f-trustees

Jerry Yang is probably happy his tenure is over. What a stressful time.

Most important question for Ms Sarafan: Do you have football season tickets?

Given the declining season ticket sales I would be surprised if she was among the few of us who are still buying them....

given her degrees are from 2003 she was likely a frosh for the 2000 Rose Bowl game so she might have some positive memories associated with football

[82lsju]

Lily Sarafan '03 to succeed Jerry Yang of president of the BoT

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0...f-trustees

Jerry Yang is probably happy his tenure is over. What a stressful time.

Most important question for Ms Sarafan: Do you have football season tickets?

Given the declining season ticket sales I would be surprised if she was among the few of us who are still buying them....

given her degrees are from 2003 she was likely a frosh for the 2000 Rose Bowl game so she might have some positive memories associated with football

[jacket3ree]

Wow, I'm getting old.

[jacket3ree]

Wow, I'm getting old.

[Goose]

given her degrees are from 2003 she was likely a frosh for the 2000 Rose Bowl game so she might have some positive memories associated with football

Hard to take many positive memories from that game. The repeated shouts of "Ron Dayne" will forever be embedded in her consciousness if she attended it.

[Goose]

given her degrees are from 2003 she was likely a frosh for the 2000 Rose Bowl game so she might have some positive memories associated with football

Hard to take many positive memories from that game. The repeated shouts of "Ron Dayne" will forever be embedded in her consciousness if she attended it.

[82lsju]

given her degrees are from 2003 she was likely a frosh for the 2000 Rose Bowl game so she might have some positive memories associated with football

Hard to take many positive memories from that game. The repeated shouts of "Ron Dayne" will forever be embedded in her consciousness if she attended it.

well when I graduated ('82) I thought it would be great to get to a Rose Bowl in my lifetime, we did, and while the outcome was not what we hoped we made it.  The next three (for me) were a bonus (and two with better outcomes!!!!)

[82lsju]

given her degrees are from 2003 she was likely a frosh for the 2000 Rose Bowl game so she might have some positive memories associated with football

Hard to take many positive memories from that game. The repeated shouts of "Ron Dayne" will forever be embedded in her consciousness if she attended it.

well when I graduated ('82) I thought it would be great to get to a Rose Bowl in my lifetime, we did, and while the outcome was not what we hoped we made it.  The next three (for me) were a bonus (and two with better outcomes!!!!)

[gailtate]

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

[gailtate]

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

[TrumpCard]

Someone here recently called Stanford a hospital with a university attached to it.  Does the BoT have oversight responsibilities for Stanford Hospital?  If so, that would be an additional reason that it makes sense that the new board chair is a leader in the healthcare industry.

[TrumpCard]

Someone here recently called Stanford a hospital with a university attached to it.  Does the BoT have oversight responsibilities for Stanford Hospital?  If so, that would be an additional reason that it makes sense that the new board chair is a leader in the healthcare industry.

[BostonCard]

Someone here recently called Stanford a hospital with a university attached to it.  Does the BoT have oversight responsibilities for Stanford Hospital?  If so, that would be an additional reason that it makes sense that the new board chair is a leader in the healthcare industry.

Stanford Healthcare has its own board of directors: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/leadership.html

I'm not sure of the relationship between the SHC's BoD and the University's BoT.

BC

[BostonCard]

Someone here recently called Stanford a hospital with a university attached to it.  Does the BoT have oversight responsibilities for Stanford Hospital?  If so, that would be an additional reason that it makes sense that the new board chair is a leader in the healthcare industry.

Stanford Healthcare has its own board of directors: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/leadership.html

I'm not sure of the relationship between the SHC's BoD and the University's BoT.

BC

[MV72018]

Someone here recently called Stanford a hospital with a university attached to it.  Does the BoT have oversight responsibilities for Stanford Hospital?  If so, that would be an additional reason that it makes sense that the new board chair is a leader in the healthcare industry.

Assuming that that is nonhyperbolically true beyond the domain of the indefatigable SU PR machine.

[MV72018]

Someone here recently called Stanford a hospital with a university attached to it.  Does the BoT have oversight responsibilities for Stanford Hospital?  If so, that would be an additional reason that it makes sense that the new board chair is a leader in the healthcare industry.

Assuming that that is nonhyperbolically true beyond the domain of the indefatigable SU PR machine.

[fullmetal]

As far as the endowment's mission is to keep growing in perpetuity, Stanford is just an investment bank with an educational and medical side hustle.

[fullmetal]

As far as the endowment's mission is to keep growing in perpetuity, Stanford is just an investment bank with an educational and medical side hustle.

[Nobadeer]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

[Nobadeer]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

[cardcrimson]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

Well, there was Elizabeth Holmes. . ..

[cardcrimson]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

Well, there was Elizabeth Holmes. . ..

[TrumpCard]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

I'll take that as a challenge because, anecdotally, it does seem like there are many more male founders than female founders.  
Might be more common to see Stanford women chosen to lead significant existing companies, like HP (Fiorina) or Yahoo (Mayer).  
Anyway, the founder of Evite is a female Stanford alumna, circa my time on campus.
I'm sure members of this board can add a bunch.

[TrumpCard]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

I'll take that as a challenge because, anecdotally, it does seem like there are many more male founders than female founders.  
Might be more common to see Stanford women chosen to lead significant existing companies, like HP (Fiorina) or Yahoo (Mayer).  
Anyway, the founder of Evite is a female Stanford alumna, circa my time on campus.
I'm sure members of this board can add a bunch.

[82lsju]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

I'll take that as a challenge because, anecdotally, it does seem like there are many more male founders than female founders.  
Might be more common to see Stanford women chosen to lead significant existing companies, like HP (Fiorina) or Yahoo (Mayer).  
Anyway, the founder of Evite is a female Stanford alumna, circa my time on campus.
I'm sure members of this board can add a bunch.

Doris Fisher '53 co-founded The Gap with her husband in 1969

[82lsju]

There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

I'll take that as a challenge because, anecdotally, it does seem like there are many more male founders than female founders.  
Might be more common to see Stanford women chosen to lead significant existing companies, like HP (Fiorina) or Yahoo (Mayer).  
Anyway, the founder of Evite is a female Stanford alumna, circa my time on campus.
I'm sure members of this board can add a bunch.

Doris Fisher '53 co-founded The Gap with her husband in 1969

[Mick]

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

How old is old now? I've always thought it was five years older than my present age...might have to revise that.

[Mick]

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

How old is old now? I've always thought it was five years older than my present age...might have to revise that.

[TonyLima]

Wow, I'm getting old.

Youngster.

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There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

Well, there was Elizabeth Holmes. . ..

Ooooohhh, sick burn. (Is that still a thing?)

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Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

How old is old now? I've always thought it was five years older than my present age...might have to revise that.

I’m 78. Anyone here older than me is probably lying.

[TonyLima]

Wow, I'm getting old.

Youngster.

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There have been hundreds (thousands?) of incredibly successful entrepreneurs among LSJU alums (including of course, Sarafan's predecessor as Chair of BOT, Jerry Yang). Virtually all have been male, going back to Hewlett and Packard. In contrast, there have been very few women LSJU alums who founded a world class business venture, and Lily is one of them. A worthy choice for the next BOT chair.

Well, there was Elizabeth Holmes. . ..

Ooooohhh, sick burn. (Is that still a thing?)

---

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

How old is old now? I've always thought it was five years older than my present age...might have to revise that.

I’m 78. Anyone here older than me is probably lying.

[BobK]

You lost this one Tony. lol

[BobK]

You lost this one Tony. lol

[bbm233]

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

How old is old now? I've always thought it was five years older than my present age...might have to revise that.

ha! I've always said that old is 10 years older than me.

[bbm233]

Wow, I'm getting old.

You're a member of a very large and growing club.

How old is old now? I've always thought it was five years older than my present age...might have to revise that.

ha! I've always said that old is 10 years older than me.

[TrumpCard]

To sum up the female founder line of discussion:
Collectively, we've identified 4 female Stanford alumni who founded significant companies, one of whom is in jail and one of whom is in her 90s.
Can we do better?
Or, if not, can society do better at producing female founders?

[TrumpCard]

To sum up the female founder line of discussion:
Collectively, we've identified 4 female Stanford alumni who founded significant companies, one of whom is in jail and one of whom is in her 90s.
Can we do better?
Or, if not, can society do better at producing female founders?