I have a chapter that starts with me visiting the Google campus in Mountain View in 2005, and it is fascinating. I'm talking to Sergey and Larry and you could already see the revolutionary potential of this. And then Smartphones come out around 2010 and are associated with the Arab Spring and Tahrir Square. and there's this enormous optimism. And I myself was elected in part because of this digital revolution, because I was not the establishment candidate. I'm an upstart. (31:31–31:39)
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