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Let's start chronologically. When did Logan and John come to you and say hey we have this idea

Would you like to lead our company? It was first of all I characterize it as a crazy idea

But we'll come back. Why is it crazy because it's outside of your your CV what you've done in the past?

In a sense but in another sense it isn't.

You know I was at Amazon focused on the customer I was at Microsoft

focused on competing I built a nonprofit that gets 20 million kids

reading with very limited resources.

Might to do quite a lot with very little.

That's the idea yeah but they did they approach the board actually at the end of last year

saying it was time for them to think about the next thing

with your name or just generally speaking at the end of last year that's right that's right

and then the board created a search committee as they do they hired a search firm as they do

they saw hundreds of people dozens of strong candidates in the end.

Right. They came to me and said maybe you're the guy.

Okay so when they came to you, what was it that they wanted you to do? What was their kind of big pitch

around why lift would be better under your leadership.

You know, I think they are really proud of what they've created and for good reason.

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