and one of the founders of sandisk. as you can tell, i am not from around here. i moved here from copenhagen two years ago. the first time i visited san francisco was in 1995, and it was a super inspirational trip for me. it sent me back to denmark with a dream and ambition to work with technology, web and the software. 12 years later, a few ventures, many companies later, i reunited with my two good friends and colleagues, and we got together to build this great start up called sandisk. two years later we moved our company, our families, our staffs and kids to san francisco to grow our business in one of the most vitea cities in the world. we were humbled by the wonderful way we were welcomed to san francisco. this has put us on a very rapid growth path. for those of you who don't know, sandisk is cloud-based software, and we are the leading developer of cloud-based countries. we have over 100 companies using our software, like adobe, msnbc, grew upon and more. they trust us with their most valuable assets. today, we are 100 employees strong. earlier this summer

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