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…I hear the real estate is cheap too. Let's get into your story. Let's start way back, before MIT, your family and your mom specifically was an entrepreneur when you were growing up, right? I was just talking to Jason Calacanis about this on his podcast. We were just talking about opportunity. Can anybody start a company? Does everybody have an equal chance to do this? I think, in a way, nobody's quite equal. Everybody's got a different starting line. When I look back at my childhood, I had a very good starting line. I had two loving parents. They're very attentive, they're very devoted. We were femiddle class, we’re very comfortable. Like you mentioned my mom was an entrepreneur. She was always doing her own crazy hijinks startup selling computers and stuff in the 90s. My dad was part of this elite team of furniture makers. There's like nine of them. They each had a different role, they would make crazy furniture for celebrities. He wasn’t making a ton of money, but he's doing something that he found really fun. He was the furniture finisher. He’d take an ugly piece of wood and make it look amazing. I grew up with these two people in my life that showed me that you can do pretty much whatever you want and scratch out a living. Yeah. You can do this and it'll be fine. You can have a good life, right?…

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