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🗓️ 23 May 2024
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, producer Rebecca here. We have a special bonus episode for you. |
0:09.3 | Angela was recently a guest on the podcast Masters of Scale, |
0:13.5 | a show that features stories and advice |
0:15.7 | from some of the world's most iconic business leaders. |
0:19.1 | We're excited to share host Jeff Berman's |
0:21.7 | recent interview with Angela. |
0:23.5 | We hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back on Saturday |
0:26.4 | with a brand new episode of No Stupid Questions. I was a science major. I thought it would be you know really cool to teach kids how to like learn about |
0:44.1 | solar energy by making like a hot dog cooker out of like tin foil and cardboard. |
0:48.8 | I go around to the school's classrooms and I'm knocking one by one on the doors of I think |
0:58.8 | it was like fifth or sixth grade classroom and I went into one classroom I remember the teacher's name, Mr. Z. |
1:04.0 | And he lets me do my little three minute commercial at the front of the classroom. |
1:11.0 | And one little boy puts up his hand and is asking questions about it. |
1:14.6 | You know, he's sort of leaning forward in his seed, he's got a big smile on his face. |
1:18.6 | And Mr. Z. interrupts him and he says, oh, not you. |
1:27.0 | This is not for you. This is for the smart kids. And I nearly took a baseball bat to that man. |
1:30.0 | I was like, that kid will never forget what you said and God knows what you've been saying |
1:35.5 | the rest of the school year. You know, I can't get that classroom teacher fired. I couldn't make |
1:41.3 | decisions at a level of policy that would directly change that kid's life, |
1:45.7 | but I knew I would never forget that story and I never have. |
1:49.7 | And it taught me a lesson, which is that, that yeah for sure we have genetic endowments you know I am |
1:56.3 | probably lucky to have gotten certain genetic cards from my dad and certain from my mom |
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