When did you realize that succeeding in that world was taking you farther from the person you wanted to become?

I think it was in...

I first recognized it when I had finished an internship.

I was a finance major in college and I went out to the East Coast to do an internship.

I was working at an asset management firm for the summer.

in Stamford, Connecticut.

We went out to New York for a day to visit one of our clients.

What do you do for First Light? What does First Light Studios do? Who does it do it for?

On the other hand, in your heart, You were with the entrepreneur,

the jockey.

So tell us your view and how you balance that.

Oh, man, I know Mike.

Mike already knows the answer.

I love the framing.

I love the question.

Were you at Ernest Young?

Your focus was incredible.

It's very interesting because Paganiniana takes pieces of Paganini's works, like his 24 Caprices, his Concerto No. 1, even the theme of his Witches' Dance, which is a beginner piece.

Milstein kind of modifies them into this one masterpiece.

So I've played many of the Paganini 24 Caprices and the theme of the Witches' Dance, so it's kind of nostalgic.

How did you end up starting on violin?

when I was in second grade, she just got out her violin and started playing Mozart concerto number three.

And then I was like, how do you play so many notes when there's only four strings? Like that just doesn't work.

And then she was like, do you want to try? And then like the first week or so was just playing random notes on the violin.

And it

was like a town of just like a couple hundred people at the time.

And, you know, it gets to like negative 50 degrees.

It gets kind of cold.

It gets cold.

But, you know, my parents, they had some hard times, you know, just coming through, you you know, they're an entrepreneur family.

So our family's entrepreneurial, but some things happened in the nineties and they just sort of never recovered financially.

I love