Did you even have obstacles maybe being from Australia and, you know, being able to stay in the States and work and visas and all that sort of things?

Yeah, I think a little bit.

I actually started with a finance degree in college and kind of quickly realized that the kind of big four finance life wasn't for me.

I remember being in a few classes and understanding what was going on and was interested in it, but wasn't my passion by any means.

And so I added a sports management degree.

second degree kind of like halfway through my college journey as more of like the passion for me.

And I'd had a lot of classes with executives from the Oklahoma City Thunder and sports teams locally and really understanding kind of the business behind sports, how they're growing about sponsorships, how they're making money for teams was really interesting to me.

So how do you make sure that you've got a good portfolio diversified amongst the different sports and the different landscapes of the fan bases that you're trying to reach?

i will we'll come back a bit to training later but let's go around a little bit so steph tell us a little bit about you

yeah so uh i am head of philanthropy in the fundraising team here at lincoln davis and i took part in true to be 10k on the 5th of july um partly that's because um sy and joe the organizers kindly gifted us some charity places and in recruiting a load of our supporters to take part I thought I better take one for the team and do it myself as well.

It also happened to be over my birthday weekend.

So I thought it was a nice way to celebrate and maybe get some sponsorship in.

If you'd normally buy me a drink, then sponsor me for this run instead.

And yeah, it was a great, great day.

Really enjoyed it.

Steph, do you want to talk to this? This is your link, isn't

Why Japan?

I think they just hit the declining birth rate earlier than many other countries.

And so, you know, another interesting, you could say opportunity, maybe just an interesting thing for individuals to explore, but because Japan hit the, like, silver tsunami a little earlier, they have this interesting thing where they're giving away free houses or super cheap houses, sometimes free.

They're called akiyas, A-K-I-Y-A.

I was in Japan this summer, and we did a walking tour, and they took us around, and they were showing us these houses, and they're like, "See this house?" And it was, like, in the middle of Osaka.

It was a little run-down, for sure.

But they were like, "This, this house is free." And we were like, "What do you [laughs] what do you mean?" But because there's so many of these people who have grown old, unfortunately passed away, and then there's also some social aspects of the akiyas where, in some cases, not all, because Japanese people really care about status, if, let's say, they grew up in a poor neighborhood, their parents passed away, and then they've moved into, you know, a different social strata, they don't wanna claim the house because they're like, "I don't wanna be associated with that neighborhood." [laughs] And there's over...

Which ones stick out to you, Steph?

faster?

No, not necessarily.

But I think if you could have all the cars on the road, it would make traffic faster for sure.

But the person I chose, the Billy, I don't know if he's actually a billionaire, so I'm cheating a little bit, but he's for sure a hundreds of millionaire, is Sebastian Thrun.

He was one of the early co-founders.

He's like the father, godfather of self-driving.

Yeah.

Spell her name.

All right, let's get into it.

All right, so a few of these are kind of just things, like my requests for startups.

So, um, one of them is, you know what an open page is, right? Lots of startups have them, right? They basically are these pages where people who char- choose to share their stats openly, often revenue, users, things like that, um, decide to put that in the open, and there's these cool open pages with, you know, charts and things like that.

Not that many people have been able to build those pages in the past, and they've been kind of selective in that they only cover revenue, but a few years ago, I created an open page that was more about my life, right? So it's like what books am I reading, I'm trying to exercise X percent of days, how am I doing with that, and I think we're now in this world where, as you know, just about anyone can create something, whip up a page in Cursor or Bolt or some of these new companies.

Um, but I also think there's an opening for someone to create the, uh, open page creator for just about anything.

What supplements is someone taking? Again, like, how are they exercising? What is their glucose monitor saying? And obviously they can select what they want to show, but I feel like that is something that, in the past, people just, it would, it would've been too difficult to create and too difficult to create the, like, slew of different kind of categories or things to display on the page.

Um, but what do you think?

Totally.

Tell me some other interesting ones.

Well, one note about just the world of jobs, I want to get your take on this, is we've talked before about pay transparency.

And there are, I think, over a dozen states that have also put pay transparency law in action.

And that's why California is one of them.

You go to a website, you see a new job posting, and you see how much that job makes.

One super simple opportunity for folks that I haven't seen, but...

I'm sure someone's building this.

An Immense World.