Shekhar Natarajan

Thank you, Will.

Thank you.

So I'm just like a enthusiast.

a tinker, a thinker, an ideator, a manifester.

I love making stuff.

I know that you had a very humble beginning.

You used to take a yellow bus from East L.A.

to Brentwood.

And I come from slums in India.

And I actually used to watch the rich kids from my house.

And I'm sure you were watching as you were passing by.

So what came to your mind when you were watching outside and what you did not want to be when you were watching that?

So when you're in a poor neighborhood, you don't know you're poor because everyone's poor.

You only know you're poor when you see how someone else is living.

And because I went to Brentwood and I saw how people were living, I'm like, why are you living like this and I'm living like that?

What are we doing wrong?

But it wasn't until I met a Persian family, Misharif, and I asked, how do you live like this?

Because she was a single parent, had two beautiful daughters.

And she was like, Will, I worked really hard.

I come from Iran after the civil war.