Zack Kass

And I was like, I need to live this truth.

And then I discovered, oh, actually, what I also want to do is I want to tell the story about how this technology can have a profound positive consequence on the world.

And I can do it from a lot of different advantages.

I can write about it.

I can read about it.

I can talk about it.

And that then sort of put me on that journey.

But it came from a place of basically needing to go home.

They are.

Yeah.

Thanks for asking.

Yeah.

My dad survived a brain tumor and my mom survived her own incredible complication.

I literally moved in with my parents.

I lived in the guest bedroom for six months, which was amazing.

Reset my life and put me on a whole new course.

Yeah, so I met my wife.

I came back and I was like, you know, I really want to reconnect with my town.

I grew up in Santa Barbara, a place that matters a lot to me, and I had sort of forsaken my body and my soul and spirit on this 16-year journey in AI.

I had played volleyball in high school and college, and I reached out to a friend who was this legendary volleyball player.