Dex Hunter-Torricke
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Podcast Appearances
It was the little boy who drowned.
Oh, no, no, no.
Okay, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah.
And there's a famous photo of the body on the shores of this island.
It looks like he's sleeping.
And...
You know, he drowned along with his five-year-old brother and his mother trying to cross the Mediterranean to get away.
And I remember that moment because all the world leaders were so shocked because Publix was so outraged and people were so upset.
I remember, you know, you had prime ministers going on TV saying, right, that's it.
We're going to stop this thing now.
We're going to intervene.
This is where we draw the line.
Of course, 10 years later, there's now 135 million refugees in the world, which is more than two world wars combined.
It hasn't gotten any better.
It's getting worse by the day.
But at that time, that was the first moment where I thought, look at the gulf between the ambitions of the world's richest people with all their vast technology, saying that we're going to lift humanity up.
And there is humanity right there, the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of our time.
And you can say, well,
Why should it be up to the CEO of one of these tech companies to go and solve that problem?