Ric Elias

And it's been beautiful.

I reconnected with my island and I left Puerto Rico or I didn't go back after college.

Because it was too small, that little island.

And I'm falling in love with the island because it's too small.

And you actually can do something, right?

And we're involved in like rewriting laws that are good for the island or helping entrepreneurs and investing in things.

And I'm finding insane purpose on this.

I love Charlotte.

I love Puerto Rico.

I can be both.

So I can see myself just being a part of that and helping people that need either courage or capital or conviction.

to go do something bigger.

And it's this beautiful movement called Forward 787 that we just are all a part of and it's authorless and all of that.

Well, as part of that, now that's preamble to this thing.

I love all that.

All my high school buddies and we were all, we still get together and we're that age again and we all love hoops.

And the inside story is

I always loved hoops more than it loved me.

I was super tall.

I really almost never made any good team.