Ameritas dental was doing calculus in seventh grade, I was really good at it. But the idea of somebody deriving an equation on the board and the students shouting out the SIGNs of plus or minus, I didn't understand why that
, I was used to digesting it at my rate, not at the rate. And so you have to learn things. It took a couple of years. - So it sounds like your education was helpful and gave you good skills but you
really needed some kind of outlet in order to actually apply and to learn. For me, to get, I mean just inclined planes don't do it for me or solving for trusses, it's just like I'd rather solve a real problem and I'm totally fine to do the truss stuff. I grew up in a farm, I never once saw, I don't know if you
guys take static mechanics and I had to (mumbles). Never once saw a block go down an inclined plane that way, never once. (laughs) I was pulling tractors out of swamps all the time, it never
worked how it was supposed to. And so I just thought it was all, it was really hard to get excited about it. - Yeah. - It was dry. - Well, I think that-- - I don't know. Yeah, I think so. I think one thing
many people in the room are often thinking about is the idea of risk, right? As an entrepreneur, risk is maybe one of the biggest things that we're thinking about. And you've done almost everything
career-wise. You've been a CTO, you've been a professor, you've started companies. So when you