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doing that’s different, I’m working
with those companies because the
cost of robotics is dropping and
the software is improving. You still
don’t have full manual dexterity, so
you can’t do everything. But we’ve
got to get to a point where we can
kick their ass. Just making it here is
just going to make it harder for us to
compete globally.Business Pitches He
Will Actually Read
if you go into your backstory,
“I went to college at Indiana Univer-
sity and my junior year, I did this
and my sophomore year I broke
my leg skiing. So I wasn’t able to do
that.” No. Delete. If it’s “I wrote this
software package that I don’t think
anybody else is able to do; here’s the
problem it solves. I’m in Cincinnati,
Ohio. I don’t have access to a lot of
resources. Could you keep on read-
ing and tell me what you think?” I’ll
keep on reading.
Why Health Care Ought
to Be Job Number 1
because here we are in the middle
of a pandemic. We’re having riots
and looting, and we don’t know
how that’s going to intersect with
the pandemic. And there’s a lot of
uncertainty. We know that more peo-
ple are going to get sick but no one’s
talking about health care. There are
some basic things on people being
added to the ACA. There’s not a lot
of talk about Medicaid or the expan-
sion of Medicaid. We’ve got hospi-
tals who’re laying off people and not
going out of business yet, but we’re
subsidizing. What should hospitals
look like next? What should health
care look like on the other side of
this pandemic, recognizing we might
face this again? No one’s having that
conversation even a tiny bit.“How Would You Feel
Every Single Day?”
imagine you put on a maga hat
and red MAGA T-shirt, and you
walked through downtown New York,
or you walked in one of the protests,
peaceful protests. How afraid would
you be? Even though all those people
around you are law-abiding citizens,
would you be concerned? If you walk
into a store with that same MAGA hat
and MAGA T-shirt, do you think peo-
ple are going to stare at you and look
at you twice?.... Now imagine if you
could never take that hat off. Imagine
if you could never take that shirt off
and no matter where you went and
no matter what you did, you were
always wondering how people were
looking at you and whether or not all
they saw was that red hat and a red
shirt that said, “Keep America Great.”
How would you feel every single day?
That’s still not as bad as what African
Americans and other ethnicities have
to go through every single day.... I’m
not trying to speak for the African
American or ethnic communities;
they have leaders to speak for them-
selves, but when we talk about white
people having to do a little bit more,
at least trying to understand it, it
gives you some concept and lets you
understand that their perspective and
what they have to go through and the
stresses that they go through are far
different than what we go through.Treating People Equally
what we went through at the
Mavs with sexual harassment just
changed the game for me. I learned
very painfully—but it was more pain-
ful for some of the women that work
there—that treating people equally
does not mean treating them the
same. I always thought that man,
woman, white, black, it was more
like a math equation.... I was goingto treat them exactly the same. And
didn’t really realize that the power
dynamics are so different that you
can’t do that. You can’t literally treat
them equally. You’ve got to be able
to recognize who they are, where
they’re from, what challenges they
have. Once I did that, our business
got a lot better and our CEO Cynthia
Marshall certainly educated me a lot
more, but it’s a process of learning.The Best Part of Being Rich
i don’t have to worry about the
bills. I couldn’t tell you what my ANDREWECCLESʔABCʔGETTYJULY 03, 2020