Ray Kurzweil
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I said yes right away because I make important decisions very quickly.
Yeah, it was.
And we had our founding conference at which Salim attended.
I got invited there by NASA.
Yeah, and we made him our executive director, little to his knowledge.
I remember having a board meeting.
I said, hey, come to the board meeting tomorrow morning.
I was like, oh, and you'd ask me, how much spare time do I have?
And I said, I've got a day, day and a half a week.
I'm building a startup as is needed in Silicon Valley.
And you said to the board, all right, we have our inaugural board meeting.
We've formed the board.
We need an executive director.
You've all read Salim's bio.
He's agreed to do it for 50% of his time.
And Ray said, I seconded the motion.