Brandon Tseng

Was it going to do hedge funds?

Um, I was very, uh,

like inspired by entrepreneurs.

My dad was a small business, became a small business owner at age 50.

My brother had sold a wireless power company to Qualcomm.

I want somebody who's like 24 years old.

And so I had those like role models in my life.

And yeah,

I, so eventually landed it on, and I think that fit my skill set, right?

Leading teams, building culture.

And so, wanted to do something entrepreneurial.

Was really interested in,

ai and autonomy just as an engineer um that was you know of interest to me like always followed technology um i remember you know thinking like wow what it would have been was 2014 i was like it would have been really cool to have been part of that internet wave of companies like what's going to be the next wave like uh ai and autonomy is what i decided and like lots of people were talking about it at the time

Um, and then was trying to figure out what problems I wanted to solve.

Uh, and typical entrepreneur story just kept coming back to the problems that I had faced.

Um, right.

Problems of, uh, military problems, problems of national security, global stability, you know, decide, you know what, these are actually really important problems.

Um, and I remember again, looked up to look, look up to Elon Musk as an entrepreneur.

Um, and he has done a lot of interviews where he talks about like, yeah, was trying, you know,

wanted to do something, you know, to progress humankind.