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 - Book talk and signing
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DESCRIPTION:Chris Clay\, the son of the late Roy L. Clay Sr.\, will share t
 he story of his father's journey that led him to Silicon Valley\, where he
  garnered the nickname "The Godfather of Silicon Valley." Unstoppable\, by
  Roy L. Clay Sr. and M. H. Jackson\, explores the life of Roy L. Clay Sr. 
 from his time as a teenager using his uncanny math skills to run a back-ro
 om craps game in segregated\, rural Missouri to his rise as a Silicon Vall
 ey technology pioneer. Personally recruited to Hewlett-Packard by Dave Pac
 kard in 1965\, Clay Sr. was a founding member of the computer division whe
 re he led the team that created the HP 2116A.\n\nAs Clay Sr. rose to becom
 e one of the highest-ranking Black employees at HP\, he used his position 
 to help the company improve its efforts to combat discrimination and inequ
 ality. After leaving HP\, he established his own consulting company and wo
 rked closely with Tom Perkins (Kleiner Perkins) to shape Silicon Valley as
  we know it today. Clay Sr. also served as the first Black City Councilman
  in Palo Alto\, became Vice Mayor of the City\, and was inducted into the 
 Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. Unstoppable has been featured by Stephen Curr
 y’s Underrated Book Club\, USA Today\, NBC Bay Area\, and Fox Bay Area.\
 n\nRSVP is required for this event.  This will be a hybrid event. The book
  talk will occur during the first hour followed by a book signing for in-p
 erson attendees. Books will be available for purchase at the event. \n\nCh
 ris Clay holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cal
 ifornia\, Berkeley\, and an M.B.A. in Finance from UCLA’s Anderson Gradu
 ate School of Management. After graduating from UCLA\, Chris worked for 10
  years as an Engineering leader at Rod-L Electronics\, a company founded b
 y his father\, Roy Clay Sr. After Rod-L Electronics\, Chris worked in Prod
 uct Management\, Marketing\, and Business Development at several other tec
 hnology companies. Chris currently works as a business development leader 
 for German-based software company SAP. Chris is also the Managing Editor f
 or Roy L. Clay Sr.’s memoir\, Unstoppable: The Unlikely Story of a Silic
 on Valley Godfather.\n\nThank you to our co-sponsors for this event\, Stan
 ford Black Staff Alliance (BSA)\,  People of Color in IT (POC-IT).  and St
 anford Silicon Valley Archives.
GEO:37.426631;-122.167086
LOCATION:Hohbach Hall 122 (Green Library)
SUMMARY:Unstoppable: The Unlikely Story of a Silicon Valley Godfather - Boo
 k talk and signing
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/unstoppable-the-unlikely-st
 ory-of-a-silicon-valley-godfather-book-talk-and-signing
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