Top White House Advisor: The US Empire Is Declining And Socialism Is Coming Next! | David Friedberg

Professional Journey03:02

I started in college majoring in math and physics and then changed my major to astrophysics. During the time I was in college, the .com boom happened in the heart of Silicon Valley. There was a kid in my dorm room who started a website selling DVDs online and he sold it for a million dollars in our junior year of college. That was an unbelievable, unfathomable amount of money. There was a change that was happening in the world.

I got enamored with the idea of businesses and how do you use businesses to change the world, not just use scientific discovery as a method to change the world. I decided to go work in Silicon Valley. I interviewed for jobs. I didn't get a lot of offers, but I played a lot of poker during my college days. That's how I was able to make money. I read all the strategy books on playing poker. I actually spent a year working in a pool hall and the manager of the pool hall and the bookie invited me to their home poker game. Took all my money that I made at the pool hall. I was making four bucks an hour, $4.25 an hour. So I was going to learn poker. I learned it. That's how I made money.

I put that on my resume when I applied for jobs after college. I got interviews with investment banks. The investment banks were like, we want to talk to a kid that knows how to play poker. Because this was before internet poker, before ESPN poker. It was an interesting thing. I ended up getting a job working in investment banking and then worked on tech companies. So then I got to learn business, finance, accounting, mergers and acquisitions, all this sort of stuff. Then I ended up working at Google. I worked at Google when it was started, when it was just under a thousand employees and I left a couple years later started a business called The Climate Corporation.

The Climate Corporation04:30