Shawn Ryan

Believe me, I would, like, I had little business cards back in the day.

I mean, I think, I mean, I, like, it's very cringy.

I mean, I...

That's awesome.

I blame my dad.

But it was like you had little photo books on the plane, little business cards, and thinking of who you want to meet.

And you're going to meet that person.

And then you're this cute little kid.

I mean, you get a little bit less cute once you're a new teenager.

But between 12 and 14, you're pretty cute.

Um, so like walking around like with that, like trying to introduce myself to like various MIT faculty say, or like at the air shows, various people in the FAA, or like maybe Peter Demandis or, or, or folks who, uh, had done cool stuff in either like the private aerospace, like, um, like Anusha Ansari had gone up, uh, in a Soyuz capsule and then Demandis had the XPRIZE.

So like definitely a lot of like trying to network, but with like a little

No, with the kids.

I mean, it works with, it's like an arbitrage opportunity.

It's like there are things that like the kid can get the access and the, yeah.

So it was very, it was a relief because I didn't get into college otherwise, right?

I mean, I was very dumb.

I was like very narrow-minded in the sense of like, or like laser focused on, I want this thing or this thing.

None else.

I have standards, but you can't like have standards if you're not like,