2016-04-27
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I've come to the very, very strong conviction that the kids that I grew up with in West Virginia and the young people who I taught middle school for years in West Baltimore are made of the same stuff as the folks who I sat across the table from in the White House situation room.
And, you know, the same people who, you know, the top of the business world who I work with now, I really do think they're made of the same stuff.
It's, you know, talent is universally distributed.
Opportunity is not.
Imagine going from being a middle school teacher in Baltimore in one of the most troubling times in the city's history to working side by side with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on global innovation projects that end up taking you around the world to try and solve problems that are so complex that pretty much everybody else has given up on them.
Well, that's the journey that today's guest, Alec Ross, has taken.
And he's really, he's taken this opportunity to travel around and work at the highest levels of government, not just in our government, but with other governments and agencies around the world, and almost on a tactical strike level to try and fix problems that almost nobody else can fix.
And that's a lot of what our conversation today is about.
He also has this really fascinating lens on, on the industries that he sees as being the places of extraordinary growth in the future.
And we talk about that, and it's all detailed, actually, in a book of his that he's written now called industries of the future.
So we explore that as well.
Really fascinating, wide ranging conversation with somebody who has been through extraordinary circumstances in life and business and work and is generous in how he shares it.
I hope you enjoy the conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.