Ed Marks

Israel, you've had this great career so far, still a long ways to go, and this military experience in multiple different industries.

What would you say are the one or two key skills that have helped you the most?

Where do you go or what do you do when you feel like your creativity is being drained?

So, you know, everyone, you know, deals with, you know, so much action going on and you get drained a little bit.

What do you do?

Are there some practices that you hold on to that help you?

Yeah, no, I love that a lot.

What's one thing that you learned the hard way?

Yeah, no, I love that.

That's a good one.

I think that's a lesson that we've all need to learn or probably have learned.

So this, Israel, has been amazing.

We spoke about music, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lucky Man, Impossible.

And we talked about sort of life messages, the optimism, opportunism, but all, you know, being very strategic, creating great futures.

And we talked about your life growing up.

and multifaceted.

Your parents were very intentional, exposing you to a bunch of different things.

And in the military, we talked about some of the leadership that you learn with teamwork and early on responsibility and motivating young people.

And then we talked about Hiro quite a bit, just the history of the company, how it was created, some of the ways that you operate.

I love some of the things that you say about persistence prevails, open book, no BS.