Six hundred entrepreneurs, developers, students and Stanford affiliates from across the country flocked to Kresge Auditorium on Saturday for the fourth annual Startup School. This was the third time the full-day conference hosted by the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) and seed funding firm Y Combinator has been held at Stanford.

Startup School is an annual free conference for people interested in startups. The conference featured ten big-name speakers including Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com; Paul Bucheit, creator of Gmail; and Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape.

Bezos’s presentation revolved around Amazon.com’s evolution from online book seller to supplier of storage and cloud computing. “Cloud computing” refers to a method of sharing computing resources in which technological capacities are available whenever users wish to utilize them.

Seats at the conference were limited, so hopeful participants were required to submit applications as part of the registration process.

Along with motivating attendees through invaluable advice from representatives of successful startups, the conference also serves as a networking tool.