Jared Kushner

Coming from the private sector, we were all about results, right?

If you're in government, you can work on something for 10 years and fail and then retire and they consider you an expert.

In the private sector, if you work on something for 10 weeks and you don't have a success, then you're unemployed.

So it's a different kind of notion.

And it was just understanding the mentality and trying to adjust and bridging the divides between the different trainings.

Yeah.

It was just the only way to be.

I mean, if I was giving up a nice life in New York, and if I was giving up the stuff that I really enjoyed, the company that I'd helped build, and the life that I was enjoying in order to do government, I was going there to make a difference.

And we had to focus on it.

The other skill set, so there was a couple of skill sets that I found were quite deficient in government.

First of all, there was a ton of amazing people.

I mean, people talk about the bureaucracy and

What I found was is you had incredibly committed, passionate, intelligent, capable people all throughout the government.

And what they were waiting for, though, was direction and then cover in order to get there.

And so there were a lot of tasks that I worked on, whether it was building the wall at the southern border, where I was able to work with Customs Border Patrol, Army Corps of Engineers, military, DHS professionals, DOD.

And we basically all came together.

And then once we had a good project management plan, we were able to kind of move very, very quickly.

I think we built about 470 miles of border barrier in about two years, basically.

And that worked very well because we basically brought private sector project management skill sets, which were quite often missing in government.

The second one is just, you know, we spoke about negotiation earlier.