Michael Steinberger

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509 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3 Jul

Michael Steinberger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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His father is a Jewish pediatrician.

His mother is black and an artist.

He's biracial, Jewish, and also severely dyslexic.

It's like I have this weirdly structured brain.

The motor is just structured differently.

Yeah, you think differently.

And Karp and his brother, who's two years younger, spent a lot of time going to anti-war protests, anti-nuclear protests.

And he ends up going to college locally, to Haverford College, a small liberal arts school with a strong tradition of dissent.

Perfect place for someone who grew up in the political milieu that Karp did.

I should acknowledge at this point that he and I were classmates at Haverford.

Haverford's a small place, but it is converging in this moment here, isn't it?

So in any event, he insists that he didn't work that hard at Haverford.

I think his path in life would suggest otherwise.

I think the library saw a lot more of him than it did of me, which may go some way to explaining why he became a billionaire and I did not.

But as a young man, he identified very strongly with his Black heritage.

At Haverford, he was very involved with Black student affairs.

In our senior year in college, he helped organize an anti-racism conference at Yale University.

After Haverford, he goes to Stanford Law School.

which he considers one of the biggest mistakes of his life.

He's miserable there.

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