Scott Nolan
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And a friend out of there was, you know, he was thinking about going into the investing world.
And during business school, he did a little bit of investing.
But he was focused on Latin America.
And he saw that in Brazil, consumers were paying 100% interest rate for their credit cards and getting completely ripped off by the existing banking system.
And he said, hey, someone should start a bank and make this more like the US and make sure that consumers actually get a fair deal.
And so he started a company called Nubank down there that started with a credit card for people and has expanded a lot.
Turned out to be a really important company for consumers in Brazil.
Today worth tens of billions.
So big impact.
Let's see.
Neuralink we're investors in.
So that one's been pretty cool to watch where it went from a concept to demonstrating it in monkeys playing mind pong.
I don't know if you ever saw that video.
If not, it's worth watching.
You can search Neuralink monkey mind pong.
And you'll see a monkey that's playing pong with a joystick.
It has a Neuralink in.
It's happily enjoying some banana smoothie every time it wins the game.
And then you see halfway through the video, they remove the cord that's actually connecting the joystick to the computer.
And the monkey keeps playing, thinking it's playing.