Discover more. The first lesson I ever learned was when I was in the Peace Corps, I was living way off the map in West Africa and one of the first projects I had was helping these communities build new community gardens, so I was teaching composting and new gardening techniques. But here I am, just a young kid from America, trying to teach this to communities that had been around and gardening in these places for thousands of years and I got everybody really excited about building this community garden, how it would really help — and the garden failed.
There I was, 21 years old, getting the hope of an entire community up and not being able to follow through with that, and I think that was the moment where I almost left the Peace corps. So that was a lesson I learned in a tiny little village off the map in West Africa that I think has served me well up until now.
Thank god I had that reckoning then, otherwise I think I would have turned out to be a real asshole. For me the most pivotal part of my life was joining the Peace Corp.
The Peace Corp is this extraordinary program we have in America and as Kennedy envisioned it, it was to send all these young Americans overseas have them help in small projects in these communities and do three things, 1. Help build some infrastructure, 2. Teach them a little bit who we are as Americans, 3. Bring that story back home to people back here in America. It was that third pillar of the Peace Corp that Kennedy thought was the most important.
I believe that stories can change the world, art can change the world, and film can change the world. I also think that the helping other people part is relative, and as Kennedy envisioned it, it was actually really brilliant. In terms of my own business, my team has been working so hard for the last year with 35 people working around the clock trying to figure out how we use new technology to connect people.
There were six of us who were sleeping on the floor of the office, around the clock because we were trying to do great work, we to figure out how to do virtual reality to make these films and every single dollar we were investing back into the company.
Even myself, I was putting every dollar not into rent somewhere, because I was living on the floor. I was putting that back into the company, making films, telling stories and in that last year, we got nominated for a Peabody, nominated for an Oscar and we ended up selling the company to Huffington Post. Now we are able to build it much, much, much bigger so it was that kind of passion, focus, dedication that it took to be able hit this moment of success and that moment is not a moment to let off the gas but a moment to push harder and put some jet fuel in.
You can meet kids whose parents were billionaires and whose grandparents are billionaires and they are totally screwed up because outside of being a billionaire they were an asshole, and I think in the end that what would have been so much better to all of human kind is if they were just nicer, rather than if they were just richer.
I was compelled to build RYOT as a news site where every story had an action because I saw a changing world around me. I saw people who were from different walks of life whether economically, geographically, whatever it was, they were able to connect to each other through their mobile phones and through social media, but news still felt like this one way flow of information.
It felt like the paperboy throwing the newspaper over the fence, and I knew that we can do better than that. The next goals for RYOT are going to be to continue this path of figuring out how to tell films, stories and virtual reality, but now that is moving into augmented reality. So how do we radically transform the world around people by using a cell phone in their pocket? But that will hopefully be up to my family to keep trying to pull me down. The world around us is changing so fast that the best we can do is hold onto our core values and our core mission and just hang on tight and be nimble.
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