Who accepted bitcoin. Yes. Is the microphone, give it to him, go ahead. So the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago and the second best time is today. You need to recognize there is more at stake than revolutionizing shopping in new york city. When you think about the 2. 5 billion people on planet earth that dont have access to a Financial System that completely ignored them, then today there is an opportunity for them with a smart phone to put a bank if their pocket. A bank that lets them inner face, interact with each other, basically for free, and thats a really powerful thing if you think about it. So lets put aside the shopping port of this as well. Because theres a lot more that we can revolutionize around the world and people have been ignored in a lot of ways. So one of the concerns voiced early on was that it would be used mostly anonymous, thats another selling point, and a lot of them because they are doing something illegal. And in fact we just they shut down a big onl
Rassoules. Hi, guys. Good morning. So today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation slowed to a lightning introduction of old in. Just about right is Christina Lewis halpern was the founder of a allstar code, nonprofit dedicated to closing opportunity gap between young men of color and the tech sector. Next we have taofeek rabiu, the senior technical manager at aol. He does products and key developer. Taofeek has been coding since he was 14. Last but not least we have nikolas rassoules who is a sophomore at pathways to Technology Early College High School in brooklyn. He is actually bit on the Robotics Team at his high school as a Software Developer and you just went to nationals this year, right . Awesome, cool. Thanks for being here. I would love to start with christina. Tell us of a bit the allstar code and what the program does and why you want to focus on young men . Sure. So allstar code is a prep program for the Tech Industry,
Eight people with their hands raised, all the rest of it. Now, we know that a cigarette and ecigarette are somewhat different. But nicotine is nicotine. Little kids are little kids. And theyre looking for things. And theyre looking for things which they get to see a lot of in advertising. One of the nice things that you can sort of mimic the act of smoking. Its cool. Kids are cool. These products are relatively new, and their longterm Health Effects are unknown at this point. Which, to me, raises the question why in heavens name are you going ahead and marketing these things and selling these things and putting them online when the results of the Health Studies which are being done seriously are still out . Why would you do that . You want to make money, thats your answer. Thats your answer. Youll tell me youre just talking to adults, but youre not. You want to make money. So you plunge in, get what you can, and then the studies come out, then you go ahead and do it. Until the fda puts