Joe Lonsdale
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And he's a CL, also, of course.
Yeah, he loved it.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Jason Spires.
He's a really good guy.
You know, actually, he had an interesting background.
He wouldn't mind me saying because he overcame this thing where he grew up really poor and he was dealing marijuana and they threw him in jail for a long time for being good at it.
And he got out of prison in his 20s and he went to Stanford and then he went to Palantir for a little bit.
And I ended up meeting up with him, and we helped him as he got this thing going.
And you kind of root for guys like that who had a tough upbringing and who didn't hurt anyone.
He was just really good at selling this stuff.
So they locked him up.
But he's someone I really admire.
And he obviously turned his life fully around.
And he's a great entrepreneur.
And this is one of the most important areas for our country right now.
It's called training all people.
It's how do you get people to get great jobs and get them exposed to more higher-end vocational training, working with machines that cost millions of dollars.
It's too expensive to build a school to train someone on a semiconductor machine that they might have to work with.
It costs tons of money.