Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Why didn't Apollo do this?

Or why didn't some big enterprise, why didn't distressed ballpost guys do this?

What makes it so that this was available, given that it was a big amount of money and what seems like a no-brainer type of return?

What is the hardest thing that you've ever had to pull off as part of MarbleGate's entire story?

If you had to isolate the most difficult workout or the thing that kept you up the most at night, is there one or there's just always a component of that?

I'm curious, since it's people going through the hardest thing they've ever gone through, how often that spills over onto you?

How often do you feel like they believe you're the villain in the story?

And how do you deal?

That would seem very stressful to me.

Do you just become stoic about it?

Does it happen often?

Talk about that part of this whole.

If I was to go see your whole life story in a movie or something, let's say pre-college, early part of your life, and isolate the stories or the things that were most formative, that most shaped who you are, what are those things?

people who to this day i consider family because they just embraced us and took care of us people who have become entrepreneurs who have shaped the world around them very strangely the most common pattern is someone that lost their father at a young age so many of my mentors have this pattern and so i'm very interested in it because it's a tragic thing

which nonetheless comes to define and shape people in a very unique way.

And the common pattern that I see is on the other side of it, this tremendous amount of agency, almost like the person wakes up in that moment and realizes, oh, I need to be agentic.

I need to take care of business.

And I'm curious if you had that experience coming out of that

tough time and any other reflections you have on agency and the importance of agency in life.

This is the stuff of the classic American dream and story.