Barry Diller

Most of the talkers are talking essentially to themselves and to their audience, reinforcing

what they think, which is not necessarily factual, wherever you are on the spectrum.

The biggest issue we have is having faith and belief in information.

And that's a sorry state.

And there are some trusted sources, relatively few.

Well, success for me is remaining curious.

The only thing that drives me is my curiosity.

And if I'm curious, then that is success.

Brian, please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your role.

My name is Brian Strang.

I'm the Technical Operations Lead, and I work at Congress Asset Management.

Ridgeline is a technology partner, not a software vendor, and the people really care.

I get sales calls all the time and I ignore them.

Ridgeline sold me very quickly.

We went from 7 billion to 23 billion and the goal is 50 billion.

Ridgeline was the clear front runner to help us scale.

In your view, what most distinguishes Ridgeline?

They reimagined how this industry should work.

It was obvious that they were operating on another level.

People haven't read this book, the people who read the excerpt of it, but nobody's read the damn thing. And the amazing thing is the only thing that has been written is my relationship with a woman from which somehow they extract he's come out of the closet. And to me, I think if I've come out of the closet, it's the most brightly lit room in With a glass door. I mean, who, who, who? It's absurd.