Tom Hardin

So, you know, my situation, again, the boss comes in, was clearly telling me to do something unethical.

You know, I always tell young people to ask clarifying questions.

And what we're going to do here, I don't know if my boss would have snapped out of it and said, of course we're not going to insider trade.

Because again, he's looking the other way later anyway, so he knows.

And he was actually never charged, which I was shocked by.

So it's important for people to ask clarifying questions.

I think just get outside your own head.

In my 20s, I had the right mentor and said, you won't believe what's going on.

Raj is doing it.

Steve Cohen's doing it.

This woman just called me.

I'm thinking about doing it one time.

I think the right mentor would have slapped me around.

Tom, here's that iceberg underwater.

Here's that reward you're seeing.

Here's that risk you're not seeing at 28 years old.

I think just sharing what I was seeing would have maybe helped me change directions to not acting in isolation.

And also when I speak at companies, they're like, can you can you review our code of conduct, our code of ethics?

Like it's always like ask these ten questions to yourself if you're ever at that line.

And for me, the one question is, if I make this decision, am I willing to be held accountable?