Lev Gonick

be a better service to the communities around them.

And together we created this project that started off as One Cleveland and then became One Community and later still became Digital Sea.

In fact, to this day, well after you and I have left Cleveland, remarkably Digital Sea is alive and well, in fact, under fantastic leadership of a young man called Josh Edmonds, providing internet connectivity.

to provide schools, education and training opportunities, health and wellness opportunities for the inner city of Cleveland.

Today, the better part of 8,000 Clevelanders' households actually having that internet connectivity.

So that's always been really important to me, and I continue to do my best here in Phoenix and in the broader metro area to advance ways in which we can use technology to advance the

priorities of the communities around us.

To be honest with you, Ed, it's incredibly selfish.

I mean, I have an insatiable appetite for learning.

And even though I've been in this space for as long as I have, in fact, maybe because I have, I know a lot of things that I don't know are outside of the things that I'm very comfortable and familiar with.

So serving as an advisor, having an opportunity to hear, especially entrepreneurs who are interested in the educational technology space, share their passions, their commitments, their visions,

It gives me insight.

I used to, when I started this in Cleveland, I used to have a personal coach who was a first year student, a freshman.

And I love this idea of staying like day one oriented.

And that's, you know, again, I serve as advisor.

I'm on a number of boards, mostly to learn, hopefully to share a little bit of my journey, my experience, some insights on technology choices.

Those are the kinds of things that are really special.

Well, it turns out, even in the short couple of minutes that we spent, you know this well, but hopefully now your viewers and listeners will know.

I am driven by mission.

It always matters to me.