Chris Larsen was born in 1960 in San Francisco, California. After graduating from high school in his hometown, he entered university, where he studied international business and accounting. In 1984 he received a bachelor's degree, and 5 years later he entered the MBA program at Stanford Business School, which he successfully completed in 1991. Larsen's first official job was with the energy company Chevron, where he handled accounting for branches in Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia. After some ...