In your new book the innovation stack you talk about a glassblower to team up with the founder of twitter to build a multibilliondollar Payment Company you talk about perfect problems when did you realize how Business Payments were a perfect problem . I needed a way to delineate problems if you think about the worlds problems those that are solved so we could copy the solution. And then for one reason or another are not solvable. We dont have a way to do it but then that group in the middle of solvable problems that have not yet been solved is the perfect problem because that is the focus of what we accomplished to look for a way to solve a problem that is solvable that hasnt been done you have to do something new. So what happened with jack dorsey and i come i hired him when he was 15. A High School Student came into work at a company that i still have. I dont run any of my companies but i also dont sell them. We started working together and he went to college. We kept in touch. Then
You can be seated at the witness table. I want to introduce mr. Mike bowen. Mr. Bowen is the executive vice ameritech,f prestige which is americas largest medical surgical mask maker. Your story is a very powerful one. To my colleagues, mr. Bowen has wins i think, really he an award for tenacity, because over three president ial administrations, he has been banging on the door warning, asking for, pointing out the america has a dangerous dependence on Foreign Countries for products that we need here at home. So this is very important testimony and we welcome you. We thank you for traveling to be with us today with all the extenuating circumstances to travel. We are very grateful to you. So you are not recognized for your statement now recognized for your statement. And then you will hear from the members. I am sure both your statement will provoke questions and that you will get good ones from both sides of the aisle. I should add something here, and that is, this issue of our terrible
Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b
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