Avi Loeb

I was very connected to her.

I had two sisters and now I have two daughters and my wife, a very strong opinionated wife.

And I love being in the company of brilliant women.

It's just the way I work throughout my career.

They're much more strategic and I enjoy speaking with them.

And so at the end, you know, I ended up not only at Harvard because nobody wanted it, but then I worked really hard and got an offer from Cornell University.

Someone suggested, go to Cornell.

They are looking for a person at a tenured level.

And so I went there without knowing anyone.

I didn't sleep that night, but apparently I gave a good talk.

So they...

uh offered it to me out of a big pool of applicants says most of which were americans and i was a foreigner so to me it illustrated you know this the american way of you can make it here you know irrespective where you come from sure um because why why would they offer it to me i have no connections i don't know anyone

and I'm still untenured at Harvard.

Anyway, they did it.

I went to a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, and I said, his name is Henry Rosovsky.

I said, Henry, do you think I should accept the Cornell offer?

They would not hold it for me for more than a month, and Harvard takes six months to decide.

He said, no, turn it down.

Turn it down.

Turn it down.