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T.A. McCann

Founder of Gist

Sep 17, 2026

10:05
I think one in particular is this protocol idea.
10:09
So we share a little bit of history here, too, as we were both really athletes.
10:15
So I went to college on a swimming scholarship and was highly optimized, went to Olympic trials in swimming in 1988.
10:22
And then I quit.
10:24
I finished my swimming, started being a robotics engineer, and then I quit to become a professional sailboat racer.
10:31
So I spent about seven years as a sailboat racer and optimizing in a different sport.
10:36
And so I've always been a sport optimization person.

27 MINS LATER

37:17
You know, when it comes to like self-assessing on whether, you know, you have an idea like Scout and you're unsure whether to go one path or the other, how would you kind of go about deciding that if you were an 18-year-old coming out of college?

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