George Kaiser

My guest today is Michael Basch.

Mike has already lived a few lives, bootstrapped entrepreneur, political organizer, mayoral candidate, and one of the people behind Tulsa's effort to attract and grow talent, including Tulsa Remote during his years at the George Kaiser Family Foundation and Atento Capital.

Today, he's at Renaissance Philanthropy, where he leads the Northwest Arkansas Innovation Fund and helps major donors put capital to work on some of the world's hardest problems.

In our conversation, Mike takes us back to the childhood summers that shaped him, split between a lemonade street corner business and his mother's work at the Shoah Foundation.

The furthest you could get from Tulsa was like Charlotte.

And here is this New Yorker in town that's built a couple of things.

And I got to meet George Kaiser and Ken Levitt, who runs the George Kaiser Family Foundation.

And they were telling me, They're looking to stop the brain drain.