Michael Steinberger

He's running a company that works with the CIA and other clandestine services that is a major defense contractor.

Do you worry about your personal safety?

You do.

Yeah.

He's had a very unusual path to this role.

He's a Philly kid.

He grew up in Philadelphia.

He grew up in a very left-wing household.

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.