George Whitesides: “I moved out to the district to run an aerospace company…”

“I am somebody who's been in the space community. So I worked at NASA. I was the chief of staff there under the Obama administration. And then I moved out to the district to run an aerospace company called Virgin Galactic where we created about 700 jobs. good mortgage paying jobs out there. And the last few years I've been working in the Wildfire crisis because it's such a huge issue out in our part of the world.” (01:14–01:24)

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