David Yoon

YOUR 2026 NCAA CHAMPIONS: @StanfordWGolf 🏆

THE DYNASTY IS OFFICIAL! STANFORD IS THE 2026 WOMEN’S GOLF NATIONAL CHAMPION! 🌲🤓

For the third year in a row, the Cardinal will play for a national championship! #GoStanford

@BenSasse Mr. Sasse, I am so sorry to hear this. I would like to offer prayers for your health and wellbeing. The entire @HarvardAlumni community is behind you and praying for you. David Yoon, @Harvard College AB, Leverett House

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

As passionate as Stanford GSB faculty are about teaching, they love learning just as much. Here are some of their favorite podcasts to cue up in your own quest for something fresh and fascinating. brnw.ch/21wYCwu

Katana.Network, a blockchain platform designed specifically for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), hosting a seminar in South #Korea! @katana #DeFi #blockchain

“Having broad cross-disciplinary and exposure experience is critical,” says @YouTube CEO @NealMohan, BS ’96, MBA ’05. That’s why for the last century, Stanford GSB and @StanfordEng have jointly prepared students to lead at the intersection of business and technology. gsb.stanford.edu/experience/new…

Congratulations to Chicago @NHLBlackhawks legend @DuncanKeith, 3-time @StanleyCup Champion, 2-time @Olympics Gold Medalist, 2-time Norris Trophy winner as the best defenseman in the @NHL, and the 2015 Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the Playoffs MVP! youtube.com/shorts/kewrKTW…

WHAT. A. MATCH! The Cardinal earns the 🏆 in PKS! #GoStanford

For the first time in program history, @StanfordWSoccer are ACC Champions 🏆

You wanna know what glove is? We give you the @Cubs, winners of the NL @RawlingsSports team Gold Glove!

Flipped the script 🔀 #GoStanford

Never a doubt. Congratulations, Nico! #GoStanford x #StanfordBSBPros

Nico Hoerner is your 2025 NL Gold Glove Award winner at 2B!

Just one of FOUR steals last night from @SKJones24

I enjoyed this recent interview of @peterfenton and wanted to share a few thoughts on success, entrepreneurship and VC... youtu.be/lqKsYGkkjsc?si…

The Stanford GSB community is always changing and growing. Yet, as this video shows, campus life remains connected through the constant of community. #GSB100 Read more: gsb100.stanford.edu/stories/then-a…

“No school is better poised to be the leader in understanding the implications of AI as a managerial [and] productivity tool than Stanford GSB,” says Professor Amir Goldberg, weighing in with other faculty and alumni with reflections about Stanford GSB’s past and hopes for the future. gsb.stanford.edu/experience/new…

A century of bold ideas. A place that feels like home. And a few stories you’ve never heard — until now. GSB at 100 is a new four-part podcast series celebrating Stanford GSB’s Centennial. Listen to the trailer here: stanford.io/3VbD42Y

@ruewhenwasthis0 @WatchMarquee Go Chicago @Cubs!

@WatchMarquee PCA IS BACK. TUCKER IS BACK. I CAN FINALLY STOP CRYING. ITS ONLY UP FROM HERE