Welcome to the AI chat podcast. Today on the podcast, we have the pleasure of being joined by Blair LaCourt.

I'm really excited to have Blair on the podcast today for a couple different reasons.

He's got an amazing background in tech, a lot of really incredible experiences. He was the CEO over at ExoJet, which eventually merged with VistaJet and became one of the largest private airlines,

which is super fascinating. He worked with TPG, Autodesk, Sun Microsystems. He took AI Technologies

public. He did their IPO, $1.5 billion IPO, and a ton of bunch of interesting stuff. He's currently trained to be an astronaut.

There is a lot going on. Oh, and I guess I also got to mention the vice chairman of the Buck

Institute working on longevity. So he's invested over a thousand companies. I'm excited to have

you on the show today, Blair. Yeah, thanks. Hey, I'm glad to be here. You know, but it's so funny because, you know,

the longevity institute is on the last on your list and the tech is the first. You know,

in my age, the longevity issue is the first on my list and the tech is, you know, it's after that.

So it's awesome. Yeah, we're in the world.

That's, yeah, that's funny.

It makes a lot of sense.

A lot of exciting stuff is going on right now in both of those sectors.

So we're going to get to all of it in the podcast today.

I was wondering, you know, just, I always love asking people kind of right off the bat, what got you into the tech and let's talk about longevity and all

that, but like what kind of got you into that the tech ecosystem, the tech environment,

was it something you're always passionate about? What brought you into it? Sure. Well, I'm probably

going to give you a different answer than anyone you've ever had on this show before because

the only reason I got into tech is because back in my day, when you've ever had on this show before because the only reason I got into tech is because

back in my day, when you were a consultant, if you missed your plane, they would actually make

you pay for your plane flight if you didn't show up for the meeting. And I was in an airport in Topeka,

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