Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I am here with Alo Black who of course we know as the

Grammy nominated recording artist singer songwriter also activist aloe you're an entrepreneur let's start with that because

you and I met at Founders Forum not long ago where you were talking about Major Inc I'm so

intrigued by this business named after your dad but talk about the

genesis of that and welcome. Hi thank you so much great to be here. Yeah I

named Major Inc after my dad because you know my dad retired from the United States Marine Corps after 30 years of service, and he just epitomizes a can-do- anything type of mentality.

So I name my company that because I want my company to be able to do anything

when it comes to curing infectious disease

and creating solutions for major problems.

And I was lucky enough to find some brilliant professors at the University of Houston,

Dr. Bin Guo and Dr. Gomika Uddaasoria who work in a special class of molecules called

peptoids. Not many people know about peptoids but I'm so excited about. I feel like

we're in a MRNA 15 years ago situation where it's it's just a burgeoning

kind of new technology and people are becoming aware and I'm trying to share as much as I can, but we've found that peptoids can have an impact in infectious disease, in longevity, in arthritis, and potentially in sepsis is the most recent indication that we found which is

groundbreaking because you know sepsis is a major killer in hospitals and you don't have a cure for it.

Yeah no it's killed some of my family members.

So I think that's very exciting.

One of the things that intrigues me is how did you come to this

from an entrepreneurial perspective? Because some people would give money to it you know from a

charitable perspective but you are building a company around this so was it inspired by

COVID or what brought you to it?

Believe me, I tried to do the philanthropic direction,

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