Katherine Boyle

I've never met anyone who's worked in tech or Silicon Valley.

But like, it's clearly having an impact.

And this is like the biggest story of our time.

And I'm a reporter.

Like, I should go out and kind of figure out what's going on out there.

This was 2014.

So it was right, sort of, it's funny, when I arrived, and this is like a funny thing people always say about Silicon Valley, they say, you know, you always feel like you're too late, like you missed the big ones.

So I had missed Facebook, I had missed Airbnb, you know, Palantir, it felt like I had missed Palantir in 2014, which is comical because, you know,

Even last year, you couldn't have missed Palantir, right?

It's like that company is a rocket ship.

So in some ways, it's like you always feel like you've missed the boat.

But when I got out there, in some ways, not knowing anything was really helpful because I just was sort of this former reporter emailing people, just trying to figure out what's going on.

And you and I talked about this earlier.

Silicon Valley, for all of its weirdness, the best part about Silicon Valley is it's

everyone is afraid they're gonna miss the next thing.

And so a young person with no experience with a Stanford email, emailing you saying, hey, I'm a former reporter and I'm really interested in your job or I'm really interested in your company.

Can I sit down with you for 30 minutes or get coffee or get on the phone and just hear about what you do?

People will pick up that, like people will take that call.

And so that's kind of what I did.

I was like, I am so confused.