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Thank you. My name is Joe Bradley, and I'm the chief scientist at LivePerson.

It's not so much that I didn't have an idea of things that I wanted to do, it's that there's been a lot of different ideas along the way.

And it ranges from opera singing to potentially wanting to be a professor of English literature, to being a classroom teacher, to working in tech the first time,

to being a physicist, and all the way now to what my job is today.

It's been a bit of a windy road.

I found that having a range of career options and existing in a range of places at a professional level with a variety of people and a variety of perspectives has been very helpful.

I think one of the areas people in my field can often fall down in is they can have this mindset where they're like,

oh, well, we're the scientists in the room, you know, we're the engineers.

And we kind of have this access to a truth that you don't.

What happens then in companies, when that mindset builds up, you get these ivory tower

organizations and you get people that don't really know how to listen and understand the other professionals in the room.

I've always had a love for a couple of things.

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