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I asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said fine. I didnt negotiate with him. David the famous fund manager, peter lynch, once said if you like a product, find out who the owner is because maybe the owner represents a good stock to buy. On that principle, when i heard my family kept going to a company in my neighborhood called fresh fields, an organic food chain, i began to say maybe theres an investment here, so i looked into it, and it turns out fresh fields was looking for some capital. My firm invested. We love the company. Then along came a Company Called whole foods, who said they wanted to buy it. I initially said i didnt want to sell, but when i met john mackey, i realized he had a gifted vision of where this business was going to go, so we did sell, and it turned out he was right. He built an incredible chain, and i still go to the store almost every day. What compelled you to start safer way and then whole foods . You were at university of texas. And did you drop out
And they do it to get food delivered that way you have to give you have to identify yourself in order to pay you cant pay cash and then you have to give your address to and thats more information that i then i want the supermarket to have about me so i go to a supermarket wearing a mask of course and keeping my distance from people and i pay care and then i carry my groceries back and this way. I am not having data about me put in a database because the only data the only personal data that isnt about you that isnt a threat to you is the data that hasnt been collected is a distraction to talk about protection of data in the databases because the real way to protect your privacy is make sure that data isnt collected about what you do or where you go or who you talk with or what you say to them. So were going to be talking all the problem around whether people should be choosing between safety and privacy but let me just. Not a choice privacy is part of safety remember one of the biggest
The last few months have put Data Protection back in the spotlight joining a crisis do we have to choose between safety and privacy while i talk about this with Richard Stallman of privacy activists and the founder of the Free Software movement. Richard stallman Digital Privacy activist a sounder and later all the Free Software movement its such a pleasure to have you on our program once again while richard time so really changed and still last time we spoke and i have so many questions. Especially now that were in the middle of one of the biggest crisis our generations have faced in the past 100 years or so is the coronavirus epidemic has shown that. Giant Tech Companies can use stand resources to help out in a crisis situation and thats undeniable i havent seen that well i mean i havent seen them help. Them remain saying that theyre doing right now is helping people spread insane lunatic rumors that are starting from the president of the us who is basically us the saboteur in chief a
They die and he says it didnt happen no you have points there can i just give us examples of what i meant when i sat that you know they help for instance when people were in lock downs and still like a lot of countries are getting 2nd waves right now and people feel more comfortable staying home if they can work on distance so you have amazon for instance delivering goods food. Utilities things that you need. A ball because they track you you know. If i were concerned only with my physical safety i might use those services too but i do find safety in a broader way it includes my health it also includes my freedom and my privacy and therefore i never use those disservices that require people to identify themselves and they do it to get food delivered that way you have to give you have to identify yourself in order to pay you cant pay cash and then you have to give your address to and thats more information that i then i want the supermarket to have about me so i go to a supermarket wear