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D 3 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.85
Q the biggest businesses in the world. It was wanting a computer and wanting other people to have that. I'm curious just to know from a personal perspective, what did you see back then? Was it truly just like a personal need for this device? Or I want to, you know, dig into that early was brain and, and hear your perspective on what was going on in those early days.
A A lot of great things come personally. And I learned even I taught middle school and elementary school for eight years, straight full time, full time, like every hour of the day, up to seven days a week, no press allowed. So it's not a big story, but I learned that it was less important that you're speaking facts and knowledge from your mouth. Knowledge was less important than the motivation of my students to learn, had to find ways to make it fun, to make it understandable, to make it, um, you know, like stories that, that tell what's in their head. And that's when I decided, you know what? Wanting something is even more important. And I go back, I wanted a computer. It was in my heart. And I didn't know if I ever, ever get it. I didn't know if designing computers would ever be a job for engineers. Cause we were back in the analog days, you know, smart math stuff. And, but I kept it in me and eventually I found the path to do it. So I was building a computer for myself and turned out that the point in time, luck is sometimes there's a lot of luck in business success. And the point in time that I was going to build that computer, no matter what it was worth, turned out to be worth a ton. And, you know, and then a lot of times when people are successful in technology, I've seen them look off into space because we almost all come from science backgrounds. And even when we, when A…
AI assessment note: “I wanted a computer. It was in my heart... I was building a computer for myself”
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D 3 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.85
Q this idea that you really can work on anything today, right? You've left your legacy through modern computing, and now you're at a place where you could work on anything in the world or nothing in the world, right? You could also just chill and, and move on. Why have you chosen to focus on space, and specifically space sustainability, and why are you doing that now, today, in twenty-twenty-two?
A Well, first of all, I sort of had, I had that freedom, and I was just Designing products for five cents each for people all over California, incredible things that, you know, starting big industries. But so I always felt that way. I'm doing what I want to do and not doing it for, oh, starting big companies or getting super wealthy. A lot of other people have different motivations. Um, as far as so, so first of all, I've always been into doing good for the world because every company that starts, you talk to anybody with any little startup and, oh, we're doing this is how it's going to improve somebody's life or some people's lives. So that's, That's, you know, not easy, but I like to go overboard and rate it a little bit higher on the, the balance of the good you're doing versus, um, other, other reasons like, um, figure out a way to make money on it. But, um, Alex fielding is really the one that brought me into privateer. He's been my best friend for a long time. And he was hanging around all these space people in Maui where he lives. And we're always in communication. He was best man at my wedding. And, uh, and so he started approaching me about this space and there's, there's issues in space, you know, and you start and you look at some of the close ones, everyone hears about space debris and it's danger, but that's, that's a kind of long pass for, um, what we're really abou…
AI assessment note: “Alex fielding is really the one that brought me into privateer.”
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D 3 · C 2 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.55
Q the biggest businesses in the world. It was wanting a computer and wanting other people to have that. I'm curious just to know from a personal perspective, what did you see back then? Was it truly just like a personal need for this device? Or I want to, you know, dig into that early was brain and, and hear your perspective on what was going on in those early days.
A A lot of great things come personally. And I learned even I taught middle school and elementary school for eight years, straight full time, full time, like every hour of the day, up to seven days a week, no press allowed. So it's not a big story, but I learned that it was less important that you're speaking facts and knowledge from your mouth. Knowledge was less important than the motivation of my students to learn, had to find ways to make it fun, to make it understandable, to make it, um, you know, like stories that, that tell what's in their head. And that's when I decided, you know what? Wanting something is even more important. And I go back, I wanted a computer. It was in my heart. And I didn't know if I ever, ever get it. I didn't know if designing computers would ever be a job for engineers. Cause we were back in the analog days, you know, smart math stuff. And, but I kept it in me and eventually I found the path to do it. So I was building a computer for myself and turned out that the point in time, luck is sometimes there's a lot of luck in business success. And the point in time that I was going to build that computer, no matter what it was worth, turned out to be worth a ton. And, you know, and then a lot of times when people are successful in technology, I've seen them look off into space because we almost all come from science backgrounds. And even when we, when A…
AI assessment note: “I wanted a computer... So I was building a computer for myself”
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D 3 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.30
Q this idea that you really can work on anything today, right? You've left your legacy through modern computing, and now you're at a place where you could work on anything in the world or nothing in the world, right? You could also just chill and, and move on. Why have you chosen to focus on space, and specifically space sustainability, and why are you doing that now, today, in twenty-twenty-two?
A Well, first of all, I sort of had, I had that freedom, and I was just Designing products for five cents each for people all over California, incredible things that, you know, starting big industries. But so I always felt that way. I'm doing what I want to do and not doing it for, oh, starting big companies or getting super wealthy. A lot of other people have different motivations. Um, as far as so, so first of all, I've always been into doing good for the world because every company that starts, you talk to anybody with any little startup and, oh, we're doing this is how it's going to improve somebody's life or some people's lives. So that's, That's, you know, not easy, but I like to go overboard and rate it a little bit higher on the, the balance of the good you're doing versus, um, other, other reasons like, um, figure out a way to make money on it. But, um, Alex fielding is really the one that brought me into privateer. He's been my best friend for a long time. And he was hanging around all these space people in Maui where he lives. And we're always in communication. He was best man at my wedding. And, uh, and so he started approaching me about this space and there's, there's issues in space, you know, and you start and you look at some of the close ones, everyone hears about space debris and it's danger, but that's, that's a kind of long pass for, um, what we're really abou…
AI assessment note: “Alex fielding is really the one that brought me into privateer.”
