"He said to me, "What makes you think you can be the CEO of Clear Art?" In my mind, I was like, "Good question." I leaned over the table and I said, "Because I am a complete animal." So that was that m..."

"So when you think of I think uh the magic or the secret opportunity, it's that over 30 million people today have enrolled uh and again I what I love about that is it's opt-in. It's privacy protected. ..."

"What did you learn about the product to platform uh switch or flip that happens for in companies from your Wall Street days? Yeah, so I invested in a broad spectrum of companies. Started out in risk a..."

"So here's how I look at it. Um I think there's again I like analogies and I would look at American Express as a vertically integrated financial service company, right? They have the customer, they hav..."

"First, so I will say in media's race, bankruptcy is a completely surreal experience. And I talked to a few uh CEOs who I had invested with through the years like Bobby Kodak or Martin Franklin at Jord..."

"Also did bankruptcy when I was doing risk arbitrage and uh so love a turnaround. I like to say happiness is a low bar and there's not a lot lower than bankruptcy. And then you get into the 2000s with ..."

"So that is like the whole journey put into clear shuts down on June 22nd 2009. We went to cash at Arians Capital in September 2008. A little late, not too late. And then investors said, "Well, when ar..."

"uh my parents were in the government. I'm originally from DC. 911, I was 29 at the time, really changed me. I felt a responsibility and a moral obligation to help make this country a better place and ..."

"you have a maximum number and we bid $6 million in cash which I think was a little lower than the existing bid but it was 100% cash that night given to them and uh we won and you're in this room going..."

"at some level here ignorance might be bliss. I was like we've got a great idea. We've got some capital. We've built the business model makes a tremendous amount of sense. We've seen other leaders. We'..."

"I'm a voracious reader. I think my team knows I send them articles now from somewhere between 3:00 a.m. to, you know, midnight. I am enormously curious. Um I there, you know, I grew up there was no in..."

"And so, I believed in the art of the possible. He put his family through college. They were all successful, went on to, you know, build families and and my dad served in the military. My uncle did lik..."

"Are you just wired optimistic? I am. Um, you know, one of my favorite sayings that I keep on my cell phone, I saw Shimone Perez speak right before he died. Uh, and he said, "Optimists and pessimists d..."

"So we raised capital in 2010 from myself uh the gentleman who started it with me and some outside investors mostly here in New York City and Bill Miller who was uh a strategic partner at Arians Capita..."

"You need innovation in airports. You need public private partnerships and when you have willing partners in the public sector you can do great things together and if you go through airports they don't..."

"you said great investors. it was the name of your firm is art and science. It's qualitative, quantitative together. Um, so many investors are trying to analyze things when ultimately the creation of n..."

"Number one, so we invested in Amazon. they announced Prime and it went down. The stock went down, right? And we were like, oh, you know, you know that okay, what do we like? And then the shipping and ..."

"You know, those are things that I think I did at a but not with as long a term perspective as I think was required and to really map out the art of the possible and then probability weight the getting..."

"Um and we were we create we took our salaries to zero and we created a leave of absent plan for our ambassadors so that when it really happened on March 12th uh we were prepared and pivoted to creatin..."

"How can AI impact member care or you know we have a little sign like AI to impact every work stream every day for everyone whether it be legal or finance or HR recruiting or member care or scheduling ..."

"What do you get the least credit for in the price or something like that? Well, we've bought back um let's see, we were I think we peaked at 155 million shares. We're at 133 and change. So, we've boug..."

"Um, I don't think that they believe necessarily in our enterprise identity business. Um, and that's fine. I appreciate Show Me when when we were on the buy side, we called that evidence-based investor..."

"You can control your own data. You can purge at any time has been really important, but I think that that is a big one. Um I I think that's the biggest one quite frankly, which is also why I like bein..."

"With the World Cup coming in a year and with the Olympics coming two years after that, I think that there are some big opportunities to enhance the experience and enhance security in stadiums. We're p..."

"You had to go to the fourth floor to get a CD ROM at Memorial Sloanketering. You then brought the CD ROM back to your office so you could digitize it so that you could send those scans to other hospit..."

"Um, and it it's an industry that operates on pretty slim margins. Clinical trials, you know, I always said, I would love to put my husband's data up there and you find us versus I go find you. It is a..."

"H how how were you able to lead through the experience with your husband and co like how did you yeah how did you do it? You know sometimes I ask myself the same thing. Uh again, I think I have these ..."

"So, communication key. Um, my husband, that was a different kettle of fish. Um, I'm the paranoid one who was always like, "Is this lump? Do you think this is cancer? Do you think this is cancer?" And ..."

"And so, um, really now fighting for genetic screening and really wanting everyone to be genetically screened. In Finland, they screen umbilical cord blood for 75 cents when a child is born and tell th..."

"His brother was eight years older. It all came back good in July 2021. Turns out they missed it. Um, and he was diagnosed in January 2022 with stage four pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to his..."

"Um and so we bought 2,00300 were picked up uh for the high holidays. And the rabbi who was a dear friend of my husband's my husband was chairman of our synagogue uh spoke about it. We had little um fl..."

"I I have this question I did not expect to ask. Um, what what is the most powerful uh idea or ritual derived from your religious tradition and faith? I would say it is two things. Um, it is the mornin..."

"Hard to know where to go from there. I know. Back to biometrics. Say back to back to free cash flow. Even dog. What do you got? Pro for the name of the guy at that VC fund. Yeah, maybe the right quest..."

"I love sports. I used to want to be a sports reporter. I thought Brent Musberger was all that. So I wor for the Michigan Daily, but I never quite got to football. I was more on like the club soccer an..."

"I have a couple questions about company building just like a retrospective on 15 years of doing this kind of categories. What have you learned about hiring? That I'm not as good as it at it as I would..."

"Do you have a theory as to like or or like when were you always like this? Did you like wake up or was there like a moment or a precipitating thing like I I know no other way. I don't this you just do..."

"So live your best life and make a difference for others and pay it forward. Be a change maker. It's I don't know any other way and I don't understand others who don't. Nothing gets me more energized t..."

"So a fund manager used to say it's the elevator, it's the staircase up and the elevator down, right? And we've experienced that, right? somebody tweets something negative, it's one person's opinion in..."

"Anything you've learned about investors that's interesting to you being a company rather than a colleague? Sometimes I'm surprised at the lack of big picture questions. um really like we're right here..."

"Yeah. Um and he was just in his backyard. Um, his grandchild was in the house. uh the stories that he would tell, the crispness of his mind, his humor and his humility. Uh for someone with that kind o..."

"I think identity is about building trust physically and digitally. So um both in the US and outside the US for clear. What part of the next 10 years for you personally gets you the most excited? Like ..."

"I think the World Cup is a real forcing function for our country and it's only one year away. I think you know it was in Doha last time uh and in the middle Middle East. I think the opportunity to bri..."

"When I do these, I ask everyone the same traditional closing question. What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? Probably the letters that my husband left me with. Beautiful. Thank yo..."