Preparing for lecture on entrepreneurship at Stanford Graduate School of Business tomorrow

It has been three days since Michael Jackson died suddenly. I am pretty saddened by the passing of MJ who was a great talent and genius

Went to Kim's Taekwondo studio on Castro to work out this morning with David - it feels good to get back into Taekwondo

Well, it's time get get back to work tomorrow after two weeks of sabbatical vacation - I feel refreshed and recharged!

Had a great day at De Young Museum in SF with Sunny - the new museum building in Golden Gate Park is really nice!

Driving down the PCH near Big Sur - beautiful day!!

Heading down to Big Sur for personal retreat for two days

Launching model rockets at Moffet field with David

Watching SF Giants playing Texas Rangers at AT&T Ballpark in SF with my son

It is hard to stay away from checking emails even during vacation. I will need to find a way to completely unplug for a couple of days.

Such a beautiful weather today here in Sanata Cruz beach - having a great time family

My two weeks sabbatical vacation is sure going fast - it's half gone already

Taking the family to Santa Cruz beach today.

This is my first post from Pringle on my iPhone

Also, downloaded Pingle for iPhone for $1.99 to see if I can post once and update on multiple sites from my iPhone

Just signed up on Ping.fm to have my twit posts get posted on Facebook, Linkedin and on my blog - let's see how well this works

Rajeev Motwani, Stanford Professor and Angel Investor, passed away

I am saddened to find out today that Professor Rajeev Motwani of Stanford passed away suddenly. I can not tell how he passed away as this information is not mentioned in TechCrunch, Venture Beat, or Gigaom that covered this news. I met Rajeev and his wife Asha in 2006 at a the University Cafe on University Avenue in Palo Alto to get to know each other and discuss what we are doing at Become.com. He impressed me as a very smart academician AND angel investor with good talent for investing in early stage start-up companies. I was also happy to know that he knew some of the same professors at UC Berkeley EECS department where we studied. He invested in many successful start-up companies in Silicon Valley with Google being the most famous and successful. Larry and Sergey were graduate students at Stanford where Rajeev taught computer science. Even after the initial meeting he was very helpful in introducing us to venture capital investors and with other advice. He was a quiet, soft-spoken person who was kind and very thoughtful.

I am reminded of fragility of life and pray that he will rest in peace and that his family will be comforted during this difficult time. I am very sad and I will miss Rajeev.

He is the article on VentureBeat blog.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/05/rajeev-motwani-google-founders-professor-and-early-investor-dies/