Vika Krieger

I don't fit in there.

I guess I kind of got to create for myself what I want.

Yeah, I mean, I'd say probably, like, the headline is ADHD.

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But, okay, the quickest, dirtiest sketch is, you know, graduate college, become a journalist, work in Newsweek in New York.

Because I spoke Arabic, they send me to the Middle East.

I become their Middle East correspondent, lived in Egypt and Lebanon for a couple years.

move to dc for the first time work at the new republic for a couple years work at the atlantic for a couple years work as a writer editor all sorts of different things work in a middle east think tank work in the defense department work at the state department and then john kerry who was the secretary of state at the time was like hey like all this stuff is happening in silicon valley and like it's like really affecting policy and we don't have anyone whose job it is to like

Build relationships with Silicon Valley.

And I was running the innovation lab at the time at the State Department.

And they're like, Svika, do you want to go be our ambassador to Silicon Valley?

And I was like, yeah.

Why not?

Yeah.

So I moved to California and did that for a little while.

Then Trump got elected and I was like, fuck this.

for Trump.

And so I taught at Stanford.

So I studied design as an undergrad.

So I went back and I taught in the design school at Stanford.