Michael Ovitz

He said, I'm asking you, from me to you, please meet him.

The answer was instantaneously yes.

Wasn't a hesitation.

Guy of that stature asked me to meet with someone.

Like when Ron Conway asked me to meet with Andreessen.

I didn't know why he wanted to meet with me.

I didn't know anything about clouds or technology.

So I meet with the guy, Dr. Walter DeBrewer, Stanford AI professor, and he's got an NFT company.

We're 15 minutes into the call and all I can do is think about how do I end this because time is my enemy.

Time is the only thing in my life I am concerned about because at some point you run out of it.

And I love time.

I love my life right now, and I'm in the best place I've ever been in, and it's mostly because I'm on the most epic learning curve imaginable.

Anyways, I don't know what happened, Shane, but a light bulb went off in my head when he described the technology and what it does.

He mentioned to me in the course of it that he watermarked with neural fingerprinting these NFTs.

And I didn't skip a beat.

I don't know what came over me.

I said, can you do that with songs?

And he said, oh, that's elementary, which I thought was such a great answer because it was such a put-down of me.

And it was so perfect because he has a PhD and I have nothing.

So, you know, what a course corrector, right?