WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.437 I think my road to being an entrepreneur 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:06.957 broadly defined. So building things um 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:10.157 now I would define my 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.757 role as building things that are that 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:18.077 transform key aspects of society that that's what we built at Palunteer. It's 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.157 a trans it's software as a transforming 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:22.237 engine 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.757 really began uh with like many things 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:28.477 something I didn't want and was not 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:31.677 overly uh forward about in public which 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.677 was my dyslexia which I hid. So I was 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:37.837 very good at certain things and I would 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:41.597 say still am that other people are 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:44.477 not as good at. I legitimately saw the 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.037 world differently. My brain is was 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:49.917 structured differently than other people 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.797 and I was able to perform at a 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.797 professional level in certain areas even 00:00:54.880 --> 00:01:00.957 as a young kid but then really was 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:03.437 hindered in other areas. And we had this 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.357 weird family structure where 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:10.717 my mom was a in grad school as an artist 00:01:10.800 --> 00:01:14.317 uh and everybody was an artist. 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.717 So they were outside the norm. Was a heavily Jewish environment. My mom is 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:20.797 black. 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:23.837 We were pro-Israel 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:28.557 uh and ve are ariodite, 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.557 heavily Jewish 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:36.157 environment. I everything about my life was further outside the norm than I 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:38.557 realized. >> It's like extreme outsider for for 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.677 >> there's no there's no insider bias with that. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.877 >> I would have loved to be an insider somewhere. And the minute I could be an 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:47.597 insider, I'm like, I'm dyslexic. 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.077 So, it's like I used to wonder as a 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:52.797 little kid, how could this get worse, 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:54.877 you I was like, but you know, I was 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:59.917 like, I mean, not I I not in a sense that I was, you know, thought that it 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.597 was bad, but I was like, this is just like, and I always thought from the 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:07.437 beginning, and this is why despite what people thought about Palanteer 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:13.197 sometimes, I view Palanteer as a civil liberties juggernaut. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.837 That doesn't mean everyone in the civil liberties community will ever agree with 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:20.557 us, but I always thought if fascism comes, I will be the first or second 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:22.957 person on the wall >> because because you're like the most 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:26.237 outside who they're going to talk there's like and this is before I had 00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:28.397 attendees. So now I was [laughter] like 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:29.917 no matter what happens, if something 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.597 goes wrong in society, I'm done for. And 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:35.757 um and you know, America's changed a 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.797 lot, but it it it just in every 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:43.757 environment I went into. Uh but but on the other hand I was also a deep 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:45.357 insider. So it's it's this insider 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:50.637 outsider you know um my family is just 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:54.957 so highly educated. Mhm. >> So it's not just the case that I was an 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:57.517 outsider but I was an insider in terms 00:02:57.600 --> 00:02:59.357 of understanding 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:03.997 uh art, science to some extent uh math 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.917 through my father. Uh but but anything 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.037 historical or uh cultural through my 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.557 mom. I spent every weekend in museums at 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:19.437 cultural events. It it took it took a decade before after leaving the home 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:20.717 before I could even go in a museum 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.317 because um because I I we just had to 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:26.957 spend so much time. And so that insider 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:31.677 outsider insider of uh what I would call 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:35.037 the the fundamental structures of 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.717 western thought and art which I then 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:41.677 later refined in grad school but while 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:45.597 simultaneously not belonging but but at 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:47.757 the same time believing and I believe 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.717 this still the only uh way in which uh 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:57.517 non-belonging people belong is in in the context of a western society that 00:03:57.600 --> 00:04:01.277 protects the rule of law that protects the right of free expression that 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.757 protects your property rights that de 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.957 facto protects unpleasant people like 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:10.557 that it is the our societies are still 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:12.477 the best though flawed at protecting 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.637 people who are unpopular because of 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:17.757 their views because of their habits 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:20.637 because of their of who they are and I 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.917 that resonates with me on all fronts and 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.397 in fact Um and then uh who make people 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:33.560 because I can see myself in all those people.