Q 8.2 billion guys. So guys, there's your teaser. We're going to come back to kind of current day betterment and where John sees the future going. But John, take us back, man, because it sounds like you did two degrees at Harvard and it looks like you're maybe leaning towards medical. What in 2008 brought you back towards kind of financial?
A Well, I studied economics and a little bit of behavioral biology as an undergrad, and those were really where my interests were. And as I came out of school, I was an economics major, and 80% of the graduating class from Harvard went into finance of some sort. And at that time, finance, I mean, 80% is a crazy number for people in a single industry. But at that time, 40% of all the financial profits in the U.S. were coming from financial services. This was And it just, it didn't make any sense that, uh, that, that so much money was going to financial firms. Something seemed broken. I didn't want to just follow everyone I knew into finance. Um, and so for a while I thought I'd be a doctor. I did a post-bac pre-med degree. I wanted to help people. I wanted to do something that I felt would be really good for the world. And, uh, and yet I didn't really like blood. I didn't really like working in the lab, like the whole, I decided, although I love the science, medicine probably wasn't for me. And then I found myself back in New York, and I found myself consulting for banks, helping banks make more money.
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