On this episode of the playbook I may have the most intellectual person I've ever had, Megan Smith,

former CTO of the United States and the current CEO of Shift 7.

We're going to discuss why President Obama himself created the CTO role for the United States government and how technology can help all industries innovate.

Learn about this and much, much more here on the playbook.

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the

boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing David Melzer.

This is Dave Melzer with Entrepreneurs The Playbook and I have a very special

entrepreneur. Number one, she is the CEO of Shift 7, which is truly an innovative

entrepreneurial venture that we're going to get into. But past history, one of the

most extraordinary things is Megan Smith was the United States CTO, chief technology

officer, third one ever and just an extraordinary person and I'm so blessed to have you on here because I'd love for you to share

the journey that you've experienced and the lessons that you've learned so we'll start

you're a mathematician an MIT person very logical in your nature.

It's interesting because you think like I'm you know I have an engineering

background and mechanical engineer and math,

science, etc.

But really, if you think about design and engineering,

it's actually a very creative, intuitive art.

I think the universe is the technology. So it's combining these, right, the combining these.

And one of the challenges we have,

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