Andrew (CEO of Creators Inc.)

Federal government came along later on after we had sold the company and I was, you know, flying around in a private jet in my twenties and living downtown in Boston and basically wiped me out, you know, hit me for $97 million.

Jeez.

Um,

Yeah, I went from, you know, being a 103 pound small kid to I bulked up in my 20s.

I, you know, really started going to the gym and, you know, that then I hit my growth spurt.

So I'm in my 20s and I've got money and that's my new identity.

I'm giving money to restauranteurs and, you know, all these ventures and then boom, you know, like I'm on the front page of the newspaper.

um for basically losing all my money and settling with the ftc and that kicked off about six years of darkness in my life that you know took took me to to kind of find myself and come back from it but while i was kind of in this rock bottom period

We had, you know, kind of completely fallen from, from grace, have you, um, I ended up meeting this Harvard neuroscientist, um, and this guy kind of saw it.

He actually was my primary care doctor and he saw this business background in me and he needed someone with a business mind because he was much more of a science mind.

And his vision was to bring the department of advanced research projects, which is a branch of our military, which literally spends a trillion dollars a year every year

Um, to make sure that we're the most sophisticated military in the world.

If you go to DARPA and you say, Hey, I've got this bracelet.

When a soldier wears it, their brain's going to be 60% more effective in a stressful situation.

Like in a gunfight, they'll say, if they really want what you have, they'll say how much you want.

You say $10 billion and you like your plan.

And they cut you a check because they print the money and they got the budget for it.

And what really happened was I really bought into this guy's program and he really dialed me in physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially, spiritually, sexually, occupationally.

I've been sober for nine years.

I don't really have any vices.