like most of my best ideas, they didn t come from me. the original title, i can t say the original words because i m sure this is a family show. but the original title was epic fail. we had a long conversation with my agent. at one point, morgan shouted that the internet is not the answer. so it wasn t my title unfortunately. it s a good title, isn t it? i wanted to ask about the whole chapter you talk about failing, failcon. what is that? i m sure you been to silicon valley. it is a place of cults. it s this ideal of failure. the bigger you are, the more you boast about failure. i attended a conference called failcon. one of the speakers was a young man who boasted he is now the current ceo of uber, the darling of silicon valley, a company worth $40 billion. but he boasted about being sued by record labels for a quarter of a trillion dollars because he had a company called scour which is essentially like napster, and legitimized the stealing of music. so the cult of
touch with the rest of the world, because it is the one sector in the american economy fortunately that is doing well. it is the one sector driving innovation, driving change. so when you have a cult of failure, it isn t great. what was your life like in london? my life in london was middle-class, jewish, north london for those of your viewers i don t know what the equivalent would be in new york. what is sort of a lower or middle-class neighborhood in new york? brooklyn. my grandfather had come over from poland. he began in the east end of the docks, the old docks. he sold fashion fabric which was in those days most women made their own clothing. so he would wheel his card from the west end to the east end. eventually, my family did better and they had a store on oxford street, which is a major shopping street. so i was lucky. i had quite a privileged upbringing. school, how much? enough. i was at school at northland in high school and then i went to the university
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