Ted Dintersmith

the meat grinder of school that erases that creativity and that entrepreneurial, you know, initiative.

And so you look at, girls do way better in school.

Girls ought to be three-quarters of our college, you know, student bodies.

But then you look at the world of entrepreneurship, and I think that's

For a lot of reasons, I don't want to oversimplify it, but it is heavily male-dominated.

And most of the guys that do really well, and I backed a lot, and you'd be a perfect example, kind of just chucked it in school.

They just said, like, I'm not into this, right?

And I've got enough self-confidence to feel like I can come through, but I don't like being told I've got to do something I don't see a point to.

And how many of them, you know, that's the irony, right?

So many of the people that dropped out of school are the same ones that want more kids to, you know, to take calculus in high school.

It's like, wait a minute, like you sort of went rogue.

I think that actually proved to your advantage.

You know, like, why don't we...

Begin to think about what conditions led you to run with your entrepreneurial nature.

How can we foster and develop that in kids?

Because, you know, it's there in every kid.

It's not a girl or a boy thing.

You know, you hang around with five-year-olds, they are like bursting with, you know, curiosity and creativity and they'll do almost anything.

They don't mind failing and failing and failing.

It's just the more we say, buckle down and do what school tells you to do, the more we