Latest / The Steve Harvey Morning Show / Rushion Interviews Gaming & coding leaders, Harold & Hans Vancol talk technology gap, black tech, & augmented / virtual reality!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: In the world that's concreasingly dependent on technology. STEM education
- 0:04Speaker 1: is very important for the future of our kids and
- 0:07Speaker 1: future jobs, and they have basic knowledge of the computer
- 0:10Speaker 1: programming that is put forth to us everyday via your
- 0:13Speaker 1: phone tech related skills. Brothers, Harold and Hans van Cole
- 0:18Speaker 1: that's a great name, can talk organically about the experience
- 0:21Speaker 1: of getting involved with the Limitless initiative and the KRPR
- 0:25Speaker 1: robot simulative project they're helping to spearhead. The organic extra
- 0:29Speaker 1: of how they were introduced to the Limitless and why
- 0:32Speaker 1: they got involved with the project is pretty inspiring. Harold
- 0:36Speaker 1: and Hans Vancol are founders of their consulting company HV Unlimited,
- 0:40Speaker 1: where they work to help companies get into the gaming space.
- 0:44Speaker 1: They also leaders and GRAB Games, and gaming company that
- 0:47Speaker 1: creates entertainment and the vr R a R enabled platforms
- 0:51Speaker 1: games in the virtual reality all augmented reality space. Harold's
- 0:55Speaker 1: VP Creative at VP Creative at Grab Games, and Hans
- 0:59Speaker 1: is c O A GRAB Games. Please welcome to Money
- 1:02Speaker 1: Main conversation. For the very first time, they might be
- 1:04Speaker 1: I might I might be robotic Today I finished with
- 1:07Speaker 1: these guys. Harold has van Cole fella, all right for
- 1:13Speaker 1: having I'm talking to a couple of USC grads and
- 1:15Speaker 1: the heart of Los Angeles down that got a new
- 1:18Speaker 1: football coach. You know, I don't know, you know, we're
- 1:20Speaker 1: not gonna get too far with that, but I just
- 1:21Speaker 1: gotta acknowledge that football maybe back on the campus of
- 1:25Speaker 1: the university. We were there during the glory years, so
- 1:30Speaker 1: you know that's right. Well, you know, so you remember
- 1:35Speaker 1: when uh when uh, I'm just speaking off couple of
- 1:38Speaker 1: the UT game, the world of the greatest football game
- 1:40Speaker 1: I've seen in college football, the USC game. Yeah, that
- 1:44Speaker 1: that was. That was a brilliant game. This is a brilliant,
- 1:47Speaker 1: brilliant football game. If you're a fan of college football,
- 1:50Speaker 1: it's a game you always will remember. But but you guys, uh,
- 1:54Speaker 1: when I see your name Harold and Hans at this
- 1:56Speaker 1: the Hans van Cole, it sounds so European. I'm sure
- 1:59Speaker 1: you had that a lot, come fellas. Yeah, definitely always
- 2:03Speaker 1: always get asked like, oh are you German? Or how
- 2:06Speaker 1: did you get that name? And they're always they always
- 2:08Speaker 1: get disappointed when I just tell him, yeah, they my
- 2:10Speaker 1: parents saw it in the baby book and they liked
- 2:12Speaker 1: it so so Harol, how did you get your name? Then?
- 2:16Speaker 1: What baby book they saw your name? Ma'm I'm assuming
- 2:19Speaker 1: it's the same thing. But you know, my name doesn't
- 2:23Speaker 1: draw as many reactions. So but but what does draw
- 2:28Speaker 1: reaction is the fact that you guys are in the
- 2:31Speaker 1: You know, we hear the word stam being thrown out
- 2:33Speaker 1: a lot. STAM say the the America is falling backwards,
- 2:38Speaker 1: uh behind in the STAM educational platforms, and especially when
- 2:43Speaker 1: you minorities are people of color, the STAM education platform
- 2:47Speaker 1: almost becomes non existence. And then we had the pandemic
- 2:51Speaker 1: jump all over us and turn into virtual living, which
- 2:54Speaker 1: means that you have to have some clear understanding of
- 2:57Speaker 1: computer or how to use your phone for your child
- 3:00Speaker 1: to be educating. And we all know that the footprint
- 3:03Speaker 1: for Internet is not always available for people of color.
- 3:07Speaker 1: So when I say those hair, all those things, what
- 3:09Speaker 1: saddens you the most about what has happened to the
- 3:12Speaker 1: minority community the last two years with the pandemic tied
- 3:15Speaker 1: to education? I mean, that's a that's a big question.
- 3:21Speaker 1: I think you know, there's already a bit of a
- 3:25Speaker 1: divide um in terms of educational opportunities and kind of
- 3:31Speaker 1: what kids have access to UM. You know, when when
- 3:37Speaker 1: I first showed up in high school, uh, I was
- 3:41Speaker 1: I was meeting all these people. It was the first
- 3:43Speaker 1: time that I really gotten exposed to a lot of
- 3:46Speaker 1: people outside of my immediate area. Uh. And you know
- 3:50Speaker 1: they're starting in uh Spanish too, and you know, advanced
- 3:55Speaker 1: algebra and all these things. And I'm like, man, you
- 3:59Speaker 1: gotta had those classes at your school. And you know,
- 4:03Speaker 1: they had music classes and different languages and uh, you know,
- 4:07Speaker 1: computer courses and all that stuff. And it you know,
- 4:11Speaker 1: it starts so early that those diverging paths, you know,
- 4:15Speaker 1: UM and seeing that there's just different opportunities at different
- 4:22Speaker 1: schools UM can really set people way ahead or start people,
- 4:29Speaker 1: you know, behind the starting blocks. And so when you
- 4:32Speaker 1: look at that as a as a basis, UM it
- 4:37Speaker 1: only the pandemic only made it worse. Uh. You know,
- 4:41Speaker 1: it's you have these situations where you know, like I
- 4:47Speaker 1: think some like eight of kids you know at or
- 4:51Speaker 1: below the poverty line, you know, couldn't even regularly attend
- 4:57Speaker 1: there their remote classes because you know, there's situations at
- 5:02Speaker 1: home and different things going on, and you know, the
- 5:06Speaker 1: school was a place where one you knew where your
- 5:10Speaker 1: kids were gonna be and two you had people really
- 5:13Speaker 1: guiding what it was that they were doing. And so,
- 5:18Speaker 1: you know, the pandemic just kind of widened that because
- 5:21Speaker 1: now you're bringing in you know what, like you mentioned,
- 5:25Speaker 1: what Internet do they have access to? What hardware do
- 5:27Speaker 1: they have access to? Um and so you start to
- 5:30Speaker 1: see a lot of programs start to come up to
- 5:32Speaker 1: try to get hardware into the hands of kids, try
- 5:35Speaker 1: to give families, you know, better internet access, cheaper internet access,
- 5:43Speaker 1: because unfortunately, you know, economic uh you know factors really
- 5:50Speaker 1: play into the barriers that that kids have for education,
- 5:56Speaker 1: and you know, we don't think that should be the case.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Uh So the endemic just kind of widened a gap
- 6:03Speaker 1: that kind of already existed. And at the gap when
- 6:06Speaker 1: you talk about it, Hans, when you start talking about
- 6:08Speaker 1: d R, which is virtual reality and augmented reality, you
- 6:13Speaker 1: know that's if you if you're not if you're not
- 6:15Speaker 1: even on the plane of two plus two is four
- 6:17Speaker 1: equal four, then this the distance is more amazing because
- 6:22Speaker 1: what you're talking about is what we're seeing basically in
- 6:25Speaker 1: the Marvel movies. You know, there's that bringing out that life.
- 6:29Speaker 1: You know, walking into a store, you see a dinosaur
- 6:31Speaker 1: standing over you because I was fortunate or with a
- 6:34Speaker 1: contract I had with their National Guard to get into
- 6:36Speaker 1: the argument. And it's really a it's a three D
- 6:38Speaker 1: world that really exists. And I know there's some type
- 6:41Speaker 1: of programming now where I was working with this guy,
- 6:44Speaker 1: he was in London and then on my cell phone,
- 6:47Speaker 1: you know, I was able to appear like he was
- 6:50Speaker 1: on my front step with me talking. That's how advanced
- 6:53Speaker 1: this program and he's getting it's almost getting to a
- 6:56Speaker 1: version of teleporting somebody. It's almost like I teleported him
- 6:59Speaker 1: from London to my front step and on my phone
- 7:02Speaker 1: he was sitting right next to me on my on
- 7:05Speaker 1: the sofa on my front step. So how can we
- 7:08Speaker 1: catch up? Are are we? Are we fighting a game
- 7:10Speaker 1: that we won't catch up with? Horns um. I think
- 7:14Speaker 1: I think it all starts at really establishing the uh,
- 7:19Speaker 1: the knowledge set from a core level with with the
- 7:24Speaker 1: kids that are coming up and the people that are
- 7:26Speaker 1: in high school and and going to college. I think
- 7:30Speaker 1: the the main, the main piece with all of this
- 7:33Speaker 1: this technology that's that's uh you know, blowing us away
- 7:38Speaker 1: daily is at its core, it's it's a programming language
- 7:43Speaker 1: or or some some set of rules that apply across
- 7:48Speaker 1: across these different technology areas. So I think more and
- 7:52Speaker 1: more people need to understand, uh, how critical it is
- 7:56Speaker 1: to learn these skills because technology is not going away,
- 8:01Speaker 1: um as as we as we know, Um, everybody is
- 8:06Speaker 1: very dependent on on their phone, and the phone does many, many,
- 8:12Speaker 1: many things for us makes our lives a lot easier. Um,
- 8:15Speaker 1: But that's all technology. Well it's interesting because you know,
- 8:20Speaker 1: I'm just I'm you know, I'm old school. I go
- 8:22Speaker 1: back to the four train in the past, programs of days,
- 8:26Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm like a dinosaur when I
- 8:29Speaker 1: was back there programming versus what they're doing. When you
- 8:32Speaker 1: look at augmented reality programming, what what has blown you
- 8:36Speaker 1: away the most about that? What have you seen at that?
- 8:39Speaker 1: You can tell my people are watching this or people
- 8:42Speaker 1: who are listening to this, about the future of augmenting
- 8:45Speaker 1: and why that is so powerful? Well, I mean just
- 8:49Speaker 1: just in the name itself, it's it's it's something that's
- 8:53Speaker 1: meant to improve your already existing reality. Right. So, Um,
- 8:58Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of different projects that that we've
- 9:01Speaker 1: worked on, um, A lot of which haven't been released
- 9:04Speaker 1: or that we can't talk about in details. Really we
- 9:07Speaker 1: have one of the conversations there we can't talk about
- 9:12Speaker 1: can you talk? Can you talk? Because I'll give I'll
- 9:16Speaker 1: give a little something. I mean, but you know, so
- 9:21Speaker 1: one of one of the projects that we've that we've
- 9:23Speaker 1: worked on was with the NBA where um just being
- 9:28Speaker 1: able to improve that NBA viewing experience. And one of
- 9:32Speaker 1: the things that that augmented reality presents is the ability
- 9:37Speaker 1: to deal with alumetric data. So what you were referring
- 9:41Speaker 1: to earlier about having a meeting with somebody in London
- 9:45Speaker 1: that seemingly was right next to you, you know, that's
- 9:48Speaker 1: that's a that's that was most likely a volumetric capture.
- 9:52Speaker 1: But imagine being able to do that with a tennis
- 9:57Speaker 1: match or an NBA game where on your tabletop you
- 10:01Speaker 1: can see the entire court of a of a Lakers
- 10:04Speaker 1: game and all the players are doing their highlights and
- 10:08Speaker 1: everything right in front of you, and it's it's a
- 10:11Speaker 1: completely different viewing experience. You shook your head. You still
- 10:16Speaker 1: was like an oh, You're like, yeah, yeah, I still
- 10:19Speaker 1: hadn't figured that out yet, but I'm working with Yeah,
- 10:22Speaker 1: sometimes you forget like we I mean, we've done so
- 10:24Speaker 1: much stuff. It's you know, sometimes you forget some what
- 10:28Speaker 1: some of your favorite projects were and how it's going
- 10:31Speaker 1: to evolve. Uh, the game. Like if you can imagine
- 10:35Speaker 1: a team watching film and they got to sit in
- 10:38Speaker 1: the room and watch the film. But you know, why
- 10:40Speaker 1: not walk onto a court and you know, you size
- 10:44Speaker 1: up the data and instead of watching the play, you
- 10:47Speaker 1: can relive the play. Again, Let's step through what each
- 10:51Speaker 1: person saw from their perspective, because a lot of the
- 10:53Speaker 1: times people are you know, making calls from the stands
- 10:56Speaker 1: or from the bench, but they don't see what the
- 10:58Speaker 1: players see. Um. And you can go through frame by
- 11:01Speaker 1: frame from that player's perspective and just stand there and
- 11:05Speaker 1: watch how play is developing. You know that could kind
- 11:08Speaker 1: of change the game. But um, when you start to
- 11:11Speaker 1: see you know, we all know how big sports are um.
- 11:15Speaker 1: And and you know leads like the NBA or some
- 11:18Speaker 1: of the most forward thinking uh in the world, but
- 11:23Speaker 1: you know there's always people behind the scenes bringing this
- 11:26Speaker 1: technology for it. UH. And so you know, like Hans
- 11:31Speaker 1: was saying, it all starts with exposure. UM, who's going
- 11:35Speaker 1: to be leading that charge? Uh? And like you said,
- 11:38Speaker 1: like you were talking about for a trand and dealing
- 11:40Speaker 1: with those languages, and we were doing C and C
- 11:43Speaker 1: plus plus and you know, react and all this new stuff. Um.
- 11:48Speaker 1: But you know we had to learn it in our
- 11:51Speaker 1: later years. You know, imagine what it would be like
- 11:54Speaker 1: if a kid grows up with it, right, right, It's
- 11:56Speaker 1: no different than when when kids started to grow up
- 12:01Speaker 1: with basketball. And now we're having these generational talents that
- 12:05Speaker 1: developed the skill over time. You know, the same thing
- 12:09Speaker 1: can happen with programming and learning these languages. Because you know,
- 12:15Speaker 1: when when these kids were taught the game, nobody expected
- 12:20Speaker 1: them to evolve the game they the way they did. Uh.
- 12:23Speaker 1: And when kids grow up with this coding and they
- 12:26Speaker 1: start to bring their flavor to it, um, you know,
- 12:30Speaker 1: like like we do. UM. You know, that's what's gonna
- 12:34Speaker 1: be exciting and that's what's really gonna drive the technology forward. Um.
- 12:39Speaker 1: And also you know, elevate our involvement in it because
- 12:46Speaker 1: we consume it and you know, but we're not creating
- 12:49Speaker 1: it as much as we should be, right. You know.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Really interesting that you know when I in the early
- 12:54Speaker 1: in my college life, you know, I was really in
- 12:56Speaker 1: the computer science and you know, eventually got my degree
- 13:00Speaker 1: in mathematics. Um. You know, physics had something to do
- 13:03Speaker 1: with that. I just couldn't get past physics, guys. Physics
- 13:07Speaker 1: was like problems physics. I could not get to that.
- 13:12Speaker 1: You know, the train leaves at one o'clock and the
- 13:16Speaker 1: other train leaves north at two o'clock. What time they're
- 13:19Speaker 1: a run. I could never get that exact arrival time,
- 13:23Speaker 1: so so I wouldntmit publicly. I got one fl on
- 13:28Speaker 1: my transcript with physics. Then I realized, you know something
- 13:33Speaker 1: get out of that. You know math, I went through three.
- 13:38Speaker 1: I went through Calculus one, two and three without a book,
- 13:41Speaker 1: so I knew math. I was over there fiddling around
- 13:43Speaker 1: with somebody said would be fiddling around with. But one
- 13:46Speaker 1: thing I did enjoy about computer science was that it
- 13:49Speaker 1: was like birth in life, because you you're taking an
- 13:52Speaker 1: idea and you can you can animate it, you can
- 13:56Speaker 1: redirect it, you can you can create with it. That
- 13:59Speaker 1: was the most are able part of that. You know.
- 14:02Speaker 1: The thing about it when I look at young kids,
- 14:03Speaker 1: you know, they look at entertainers, they see dollars, they
- 14:06Speaker 1: see big houses that look at you know, they look
- 14:08Speaker 1: at athletes, they see dollars, they big big houses. They
- 14:10Speaker 1: don't see the injuries to the athletes or the athletes
- 14:13Speaker 1: who don't make it to the dollars in the big houses.
- 14:15Speaker 1: So when I went to SO, I have to ask
- 14:17Speaker 1: this question, is that money to be made and what
- 14:20Speaker 1: you guys are doing very much? So absolutely, UM. I
- 14:25Speaker 1: think it's one of those things where, UM we call
- 14:29Speaker 1: it quiet money a lot of the times because it's
- 14:32Speaker 1: it when you're when we're going to meetings and we're
- 14:35Speaker 1: meeting people that are behind the scenes at a Facebook
- 14:39Speaker 1: or UM like a Google like those people aren't as
- 14:43Speaker 1: forward facing as athletes and entertainers, but those are the
- 14:49Speaker 1: people that are that are enabling the athletes and entertainers
- 14:54Speaker 1: to kind of put themselves out there. Like one of
- 14:57Speaker 1: the one of the biggest revelations that UM we would
- 15:00Speaker 1: try to tell people. It's just like, hey, um, have
- 15:04Speaker 1: you ever heard of a company UM called AWS at
- 15:08Speaker 1: Amazon Web Service and most I think just recently they
- 15:13Speaker 1: started doing commercials for the first time. For the longest time,
- 15:17Speaker 1: people that aren't in tech didn't really know what they were.
- 15:21Speaker 1: But those guys basically control what is it here about
- 15:25Speaker 1: sixty or of all the websites that that control control
- 15:30Speaker 1: my okay, definitely up there as well. As my email blast. Okaymils, Okay, yeah,
- 15:38Speaker 1: but like you said, those are the people behind the scenes, right, Like, um,
- 15:44Speaker 1: you know, there's no no knock on sports and UH
- 15:48Speaker 1: and entertainment. But I had a teacher in high school.
- 15:51Speaker 1: He used to always tell us more people get struck
- 15:54Speaker 1: by lightning every year than make it to the NBA, right,
- 15:58Speaker 1: And so you're you're talking about out you know, point
- 16:03Speaker 1: one zero zero one percent of everyone who plays basketball
- 16:07Speaker 1: can make it to to that pinnacle level. I don't
- 16:11Speaker 1: really like that comparison. I don't want to get struck
- 16:13Speaker 1: by lightning, you know, I don't want to be you know,
- 16:16Speaker 1: I understand that's a painful way to realize you can't accomplish.
- 16:21Speaker 1: But what you can always say, like I've never known
- 16:24Speaker 1: anyone that got struck by lightning, And that kind of
- 16:27Speaker 1: puts it in perspective, like, um, you don't even know
- 16:31Speaker 1: someone who knows somebody who's gotten struck by so um.
- 16:35Speaker 1: But a lot of the times that's kind of what's
- 16:39Speaker 1: fed to UH, to our communities because that's what they see,
- 16:45Speaker 1: you know, It's it's part of the it's part of
- 16:47Speaker 1: the persona of an entertainer or an athlete um to
- 16:53Speaker 1: show that stuff. It's part of the character, it's part
- 16:55Speaker 1: of you know, what they have to sell, you know,
- 16:58Speaker 1: and that's all cool. I mean, I have a crazy
- 17:01Speaker 1: sneaker collection. I love this stuff. There's artistry and if
- 17:03Speaker 1: there's all this stuff and people kind of bring their
- 17:06Speaker 1: style to it. But um, you know, the biggest, the
- 17:10Speaker 1: most outwardly facing tech person that we have right now
- 17:14Speaker 1: is probably Elon Musk because he sort of understands and
- 17:19Speaker 1: he openly smoke week right, And it's like, but but
- 17:24Speaker 1: what people, what we're trying to push is you know,
- 17:29Speaker 1: there's a lot of people in tech that make great money.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Like you know when you look at the owners of
- 17:35Speaker 1: most of these teams, and a lot of them made
- 17:38Speaker 1: money in the dot com yeah, like own Cisco and
- 17:43Speaker 1: Google and like all these different teams, like people's favorite teams,
- 17:47Speaker 1: favorite players play for teams. At these people aren't um.
- 17:52Speaker 1: And then you look at the Forbes list every year
- 17:55Speaker 1: who's the most richest people's you know, telecom people old money.
- 17:58Speaker 1: But there's a lot of people in there that our
- 18:02Speaker 1: our new money, tech money, right um. And so there's
- 18:10Speaker 1: there's a lot of pieces to that pie and all
- 18:14Speaker 1: it takes is. Uh, like like you said, exposure. Um,
- 18:18Speaker 1: but you know we we understand who we were kids once. Um.
- 18:22Speaker 1: You know we're watching Michael Jordan's on TV and were
- 18:25Speaker 1: watching the Shoes Anywhere, and we want the shoes. Um,
- 18:29Speaker 1: So you know there's something to be said about how
- 18:32Speaker 1: it's presented. Um, when we were growing up, it's like,
- 18:36Speaker 1: oh the nerds with the coding and the computers and
- 18:39Speaker 1: all that. Uh it's not so much that way anymore now, um,
- 18:44Speaker 1: but you know there's something to be said about that presentation.
- 18:47Speaker 1: So so Harry, how could that change that? How could
- 18:49Speaker 1: I could make y'all cool? Man? I cannot make y'all.
- 18:52Speaker 1: You know, the life of the party all y'all Life
- 18:55Speaker 1: of the part I just don't see it. Adds. Yeah,
- 18:58Speaker 1: I mean I think I think that peace, it's it's
- 19:01Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of that is happening. But you
- 19:05Speaker 1: know that people don't know what they do. And I
- 19:09Speaker 1: think I think a lot of what Harold and I
- 19:11Speaker 1: are trying to do is to at least get get
- 19:15Speaker 1: more exposure to the to this space, especially to two
- 19:20Speaker 1: kids at a young age, so they so they grow
- 19:22Speaker 1: up with it instead of trying to learn it. In
- 19:25Speaker 1: college saying like, hey, I have an app idea, but
- 19:27Speaker 1: I have no way of building it. Let me let
- 19:29Speaker 1: me try to take classes to to be able to
- 19:31Speaker 1: do stuff. Understanding it at a base level, just like
- 19:34Speaker 1: we understand English at a base level is what we
- 19:38Speaker 1: what we need to have, especially for for our community,
- 19:42Speaker 1: because no, we we we clearly drive a lot of
- 19:45Speaker 1: a lot of progress on the on the pops culture stage,
- 19:48Speaker 1: just in in society in general, and just being able
- 19:51Speaker 1: to further establish ourselves in an area that we don't
- 19:55Speaker 1: have to go outside of the community to get stuff done.
- 19:58Speaker 1: That that would just make make things ki rocket. Here,
- 20:01Speaker 1: we'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
- 20:04Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations
- 20:11Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Well, you know, it's really really
- 20:15Speaker 1: a very serious I talked about because marketing and branded
- 20:18Speaker 1: is what I do. Both of you guys are good
- 20:19Speaker 1: looking guys. I could actually interview guys individually because you're
- 20:23Speaker 1: both were very articulate, very got something to say. As
- 20:26Speaker 1: they say, you know, y'all not want more answer, guys.
- 20:29Speaker 1: You know there Harold he lived to talk Erica talk
- 20:31Speaker 1: that he might like he might drift off a little bit,
- 20:34Speaker 1: but Harold, okay, y'all and uh but you know so
- 20:38Speaker 1: so when I look at y'all, you know, we have
- 20:40Speaker 1: Venus and Serena Williams. You know, they were two megastars
- 20:44Speaker 1: and tennis and they're leaning on each other for success.
- 20:47Speaker 1: They had somebody to turn to in a very world
- 20:50Speaker 1: as stereotype black people. You know, they went into environments
- 20:54Speaker 1: that said, okay, you here, but we're only accepting you
- 20:57Speaker 1: because of your talents as an athlete. And you guys
- 21:01Speaker 1: are walking into an environment is very stereotype driven, you know,
- 21:05Speaker 1: and some people people are really say you're not supposed
- 21:07Speaker 1: to be there, or if you're there, they don't expect
- 21:09Speaker 1: you to be able to deliver the goods. How do
- 21:12Speaker 1: you deal with that? And is it because is there
- 21:14Speaker 1: a success? A lot of your success tied of the
- 21:16Speaker 1: fact that you are siblings. Well, I mean the so
- 21:22Speaker 1: the first thing I'll say is the one thing that
- 21:25Speaker 1: I like about this field. It's a lot of it
- 21:28Speaker 1: is merit based, right can you do it or can
- 21:31Speaker 1: you not do it? And if you can do it,
- 21:34Speaker 1: and a team will accept you with open arms because
- 21:38Speaker 1: you're able to solve a problem that they need solved, right. So, um,
- 21:42Speaker 1: that's that's what kind of driven a lot of Harold
- 21:46Speaker 1: and eyes Um work ethic where it's like, hey, let's
- 21:48Speaker 1: let's figure out how to learn this stuff because we
- 21:52Speaker 1: can just walk in and instantly contribute and and we'll
- 21:56Speaker 1: be we'll get the respect that we need. Yeah, and
- 22:01Speaker 1: and also you know, but I heard Harold and Hi
- 22:04Speaker 1: Eye though you know what I'm saying. That's something that
- 22:06Speaker 1: sibling that ability to reach back and look at somebody
- 22:10Speaker 1: who had your back or be able to communicate. Do
- 22:12Speaker 1: you see what I see? Do you know what they're
- 22:14Speaker 1: talking and being able to turn to somebody can go,
- 22:16Speaker 1: hey man, let's go let's go get this straight. Let's
- 22:19Speaker 1: show them what we can do. You know, you know,
- 22:22Speaker 1: you know you know what I'm saying because I heard
- 22:23Speaker 1: them say Harold and I And that's why I was
- 22:25Speaker 1: just talking about Venus Serenia. Venus and Serena had each
- 22:28Speaker 1: other's back when people told them they couldn't do it.
- 22:31Speaker 1: And you know, I know you say the word married bass.
- 22:34Speaker 1: They were, they were number one and two in the world.
- 22:36Speaker 1: They in fact reached the finals of Grand Slam, all
- 22:40Speaker 1: four Grand Slams in one year, they wouldn't final and
- 22:43Speaker 1: they were saying that they are going to ruin tennants
- 22:45Speaker 1: because they are too dominant. So every people, everybody always
- 22:47Speaker 1: has an excuse and so and I'm not saying there's
- 22:50Speaker 1: no excuse in there. But what always frustrates me is
- 22:53Speaker 1: that you know, when you're a minority, the rules change.
- 22:58Speaker 1: You know, the rules started siding, and the acceptability and
- 23:02Speaker 1: the credibility and you accomplishments can be watered down. That's
- 23:06Speaker 1: what annoys me. And so when I when I had
- 23:08Speaker 1: an opportunity to interview you guys, I I jumped at
- 23:11Speaker 1: it because you're the You're, You're the future stars, You're
- 23:14Speaker 1: you You're the You're the space at that You're the
- 23:16Speaker 1: You're you know You're, You're out Today's hidden figures that
- 23:20Speaker 1: need to be moved to the front of the line.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Because when you were talking, because I have been fortunate
- 23:24Speaker 1: to see a version and live a version of the
- 23:26Speaker 1: last three years of what you guys are doing, and
- 23:29Speaker 1: I'm stunned. I was actually stunned when this guy was
- 23:33Speaker 1: sitting next to me on my phone, next to me
- 23:37Speaker 1: on my front porch, and I knew he was in London,
- 23:39Speaker 1: and so a lot of people can't wrap their head
- 23:41Speaker 1: around there. Harold, how does that work for you guys
- 23:44Speaker 1: being siblings? Uh? Well, you know it's funny that to
- 23:49Speaker 1: bring up being since Serena and then you know that
- 23:52Speaker 1: that movie King Richard just came out. Uh, and you
- 23:55Speaker 1: know it starts with the parents, right. The parents kind
- 24:00Speaker 1: of set us up, um and and gave us these opportunities.
- 24:04Speaker 1: But we were always really competitive. Um. I know a
- 24:07Speaker 1: lot of siblings really butt heads a lot, um, and
- 24:10Speaker 1: we did just in a competitive way. We'd be playing
- 24:13Speaker 1: video games and getting into it who's winning, and you know,
- 24:18Speaker 1: somebody would start winning for a week, then that other
- 24:21Speaker 1: one is gonna go go in the lab, you know,
- 24:23Speaker 1: try to get better. And you know, so we kept
- 24:27Speaker 1: elevating each other through our competition. Uh. And then you
- 24:31Speaker 1: know it was much easier for me because Hans was
- 24:34Speaker 1: you know, the prototype. I got to watch him. It's
- 24:37Speaker 1: like watching myself two years ahead. Um. He would go
- 24:40Speaker 1: through things and go to you know, high school, college,
- 24:43Speaker 1: the process, like all of those different things. Um, you
- 24:47Speaker 1: know he went through and I was always right there
- 24:49Speaker 1: and I could sort of see what was going on,
- 24:52Speaker 1: and I could sort of follow in those footsteps, and
- 24:54Speaker 1: I can get through much easier because it's always much
- 24:56Speaker 1: easier to do something the second time than it is
- 24:58Speaker 1: the first time. UM. And so, but we we also
- 25:03Speaker 1: work well together, like things that I'm good at, he's
- 25:06Speaker 1: better at, things that he's good at I'm better at,
- 25:08Speaker 1: and we rather than kind of diverging, we kind of
- 25:11Speaker 1: use that uh to to help elevate each other and
- 25:16Speaker 1: and bring that uh you know into the places that
- 25:20Speaker 1: we work. You know, it's just people always take a
- 25:24Speaker 1: liking to us. We're always together, and we're always trying
- 25:27Speaker 1: to just produce the best product, trying to do the
- 25:29Speaker 1: best at whatever it is that we're doing. UM. But
- 25:32Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand, you know, going back
- 25:34Speaker 1: to what you were saying that, you know, they don't
- 25:37Speaker 1: understand how great we have to be. And I say
- 25:41Speaker 1: we as in you know, people of color, especially in
- 25:45Speaker 1: industries like these, like do you have to be great
- 25:48Speaker 1: every day just to get uh, you know, just to
- 25:53Speaker 1: get the credibility that people get for you know, being regular. Um.
- 26:00Speaker 1: And And that pushes us a lot too, because one
- 26:06Speaker 1: when we run into issues, we we kind of know
- 26:10Speaker 1: how we have to prepare that next generation. We think
- 26:12Speaker 1: that's really important. UM. But also you know, we're able
- 26:18Speaker 1: to see things from multiple different perspectives. UH. And you know,
- 26:25Speaker 1: we have friends in the industry, people of color, and
- 26:28Speaker 1: we've had we've all had these discussions and we can
- 26:30Speaker 1: see what they're dealing with, and they see what we're
- 26:33Speaker 1: dealing with, and even people we work with, UM. And
- 26:36Speaker 1: so we know how how important diversity is and we
- 26:40Speaker 1: try to foster a work environment where you know that
- 26:43Speaker 1: isn't the case. UM. So when you have a person
- 26:47Speaker 1: of color at a company that's a CEO and you
- 26:51Speaker 1: have you know, people all throughout the structure, UM. Because
- 26:56Speaker 1: getting getting people of color into these companies the one thing,
- 26:59Speaker 1: but how far do they go? UM? And so that
- 27:03Speaker 1: that's been a mission of ours. And we've had the
- 27:06Speaker 1: full support of you know, our CEO, our board UM,
- 27:11Speaker 1: and they give us an opportunity to just do what
- 27:13Speaker 1: we do, but also too to help bring others up
- 27:18Speaker 1: as well. UH. And so you know that's that's constantly
- 27:22Speaker 1: the mission, UM, is to to kind of expose that.
- 27:26Speaker 1: And when people see us as a team, UM, you
- 27:30Speaker 1: know one, you know, they are surprised that brothers can
- 27:34Speaker 1: work so well together. But also it's just another person
- 27:37Speaker 1: that made it right, that that's doing what it is
- 27:40Speaker 1: that we do um and we can spread our wings
- 27:43Speaker 1: further that way rather than trying to hold each other back.
- 27:48Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
- 27:51Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
- 27:57Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rushan mcdone. I'm talking to Harold and the Hans.
- 28:03Speaker 1: They're the because I want to say, two dominant voices
- 28:06Speaker 1: and the augmented world and also the virtual reality the world. Hey, guys,
- 28:10Speaker 1: you know, I just want to say, man, this this
- 28:12Speaker 1: interview is a It's a good interview for me, but
- 28:15Speaker 1: it's I gotta bring you all back individually because of
- 28:17Speaker 1: the fact that your stories are just uniquely as the
- 28:21Speaker 1: pairing of you guys being siblings, because your journeys are different,
- 28:24Speaker 1: like I said, two years separated, but it also tells
- 28:26Speaker 1: a different tale of how you approach this whole world,
- 28:30Speaker 1: you know, but then but then join it. The hip thing,
- 28:33Speaker 1: that sibling thing is powerful, man, and don't let nobody
- 28:36Speaker 1: break it. But more importantly, I'm just happy you guys
- 28:38Speaker 1: took the time to come on Money Making Conversation masterclass,
- 28:41Speaker 1: because what y'all doing is something that I have I've
- 28:45Speaker 1: lived all my life. Sometimes when I tell people have
- 28:48Speaker 1: a mathew, if I tell people got a math degree
- 28:50Speaker 1: of the day, they go WHOA. So I know what
- 28:53Speaker 1: I've accomplished in my past still carries a lot of
- 28:56Speaker 1: weight forty years later. And so, and with that being said,
- 29:00Speaker 1: you guys are in the middle of it. My daughter,
- 29:02Speaker 1: she's her degree is gonna be in game design, So
- 29:05Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna get to watch her venture into
- 29:07Speaker 1: your world and also get her to hopefully become a
- 29:11Speaker 1: star in your world because you know, daddy, don't, don't
- 29:14Speaker 1: don't play the stereotype game. You know. I'm I'm I'm
- 29:18Speaker 1: gonna break through the glass ceiling type guy. I do
- 29:21Speaker 1: it through um diplomacy, I do, but I do it
- 29:24Speaker 1: through also being organized and have a plan of action.
- 29:27Speaker 1: You guys have done it with your plan of action.
- 29:29Speaker 1: I want to thank you all for coming on money
- 29:31Speaker 1: making conversation. Man. Y'all incredible by the way. Yeah, and
- 29:35Speaker 1: you know it's it's cool as you say that too. Um,
- 29:38Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that we've we've dealt with. UM.
- 29:41Speaker 1: You mentioned Kipper and Limitless at the beginning of the show,
- 29:45Speaker 1: and that's kind of what started to drive this mission
- 29:48Speaker 1: even more. Uh. You know, we're showing some uh we
- 29:52Speaker 1: got called in to show some kids some virtual reality stuff,
- 29:55Speaker 1: some of the games that we're working on. And we
- 29:58Speaker 1: walked in and we see a team of kids, um,
- 30:03Speaker 1: you know, in this Limitless program and they're all coding
- 30:07Speaker 1: and I'm talking like second grade, third grade, fourth grade, right,
- 30:12Speaker 1: and their coding and you know, we're learning about these
- 30:14Speaker 1: kids and we were more amazed by them than they
- 30:18Speaker 1: were by us. And we're watching these kids. They've been
- 30:21Speaker 1: entering these robotics competitions, getting better every year. Uh, and
- 30:26Speaker 1: they're using this the Kipper curriculum, um. And we're like, yo,
- 30:31Speaker 1: how do we get this to more people? You know?
- 30:35Speaker 1: And so uh we started working with them to uh
- 30:40Speaker 1: to build this robot simulator that can teach a kid
- 30:45Speaker 1: how to code without being in a classroom. Right. We
- 30:49Speaker 1: know kids are playing video games. You say, your daughters
- 30:52Speaker 1: in the game design she I'm pretty sure she she
- 30:55Speaker 1: plays video game that's kids in off the right. Then
- 31:01Speaker 1: we're like, how can we pulling this curriculum, you know,
- 31:05Speaker 1: put the medicine in with the candy and teach them
- 31:09Speaker 1: how to code was something that they want to do anyway.
- 31:12Speaker 1: So now we're not chasing them to go into a classroom,
- 31:16Speaker 1: you know, we're saying, hey, just play this game, you know,
- 31:18Speaker 1: play with your friends, play online, go through uh these missions,
- 31:22Speaker 1: go through these challenges, go through the story, and before
- 31:26Speaker 1: they know it, they're solving problems coding. Right. And so
- 31:30Speaker 1: this this robot simulator that that we're working on, that
- 31:34Speaker 1: we're raising money for, we think and it's specifically targeted uh,
- 31:39Speaker 1: you know, two people of color, inner city kids, uh,
- 31:43Speaker 1: you know, make reducing that barrier to entry so that
- 31:47Speaker 1: people understand, like, hey, this is gonna be like a
- 31:50Speaker 1: second language to them, just like social media. Like kids
- 31:53Speaker 1: growing up with social media, they can run circles around, um,
- 31:57Speaker 1: the old people trying to be on something media. Right. Um.
- 32:00Speaker 1: So if we can get this simulator into these schools,
- 32:04Speaker 1: into people's hands and have kids go through this curriculum
- 32:07Speaker 1: without necessarily realizing, they're going through a tried and true curriculum,
- 32:12Speaker 1: and we feel like we can start to to plant
- 32:16Speaker 1: the seeds uh in our communities and and kids are
- 32:20Speaker 1: gonna you know, grow these skills and and really uh
- 32:24Speaker 1: start to increase our our power in this industry, our
- 32:29Speaker 1: presence in this industry. So you know, if we can
- 32:33Speaker 1: get more kids in tech, more kids in video games,
- 32:36Speaker 1: and we'll be able to tell our stories and uh
- 32:39Speaker 1: create the tech of the future. So you know when
- 32:43Speaker 1: we still read about oh you watch this stream or
- 32:46Speaker 1: you watch certain things that you do, certain things like
- 32:48Speaker 1: oh that was created co created by a black person,
- 32:52Speaker 1: or that was created by this person like you said
- 32:55Speaker 1: the hidden figures, um and yeah, all right, are you
- 32:59Speaker 1: just let her hard talk? Man? You talk for three
- 33:06Speaker 1: straight minutes. I just want that to I told he
- 33:07Speaker 1: could talk, boy and anybody to go on. He about
- 33:11Speaker 1: to go on, but I appreciate that about that. I
- 33:14Speaker 1: gotta bring you all by separately. Han, I want you
- 33:16Speaker 1: to I want you to to. You wanted to say
- 33:18Speaker 1: a couple of things because Harold, that motivation and inspiration
- 33:22Speaker 1: come and to you the man. You know, you know,
- 33:24Speaker 1: I'm I'm you know I would I would. I graduated
- 33:27Speaker 1: high school in nineteen seventy six, Okay, and so it
- 33:30Speaker 1: took me seven years to graduate from college because I
- 33:33Speaker 1: didn't know what I wanted to do. When I look
- 33:34Speaker 1: at my daughter in game design, she doesn't listen to
- 33:37Speaker 1: the music I listened to. She can't care less about dancing,
- 33:40Speaker 1: she can look at listen about being social. She's focused.
- 33:43Speaker 1: You can't care less about the walking around in Taylor clothes.
- 33:47Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. She her phone works, she
- 33:50Speaker 1: got she got uh, you know, a surface, she got
- 33:53Speaker 1: an iPhone, she got a laptop that she does all
- 33:57Speaker 1: her game design. And she has a MacBook so she
- 34:00Speaker 1: got all the tekens. So she's happy. Is she can
- 34:01Speaker 1: be because she she can do an edit and everything.
- 34:04Speaker 1: But the numb more thing that when you look at
- 34:06Speaker 1: these things hard, you know, when you when you realize
- 34:09Speaker 1: that you you you stepped out into a world that
- 34:12Speaker 1: was so different than what was expected of you. What
- 34:16Speaker 1: makes you smile? I mean just just being able to enjoy,
- 34:21Speaker 1: like what what what you're doing? Like at the at
- 34:24Speaker 1: the core of all of this right now, it's like
- 34:27Speaker 1: I grew up playing games. I love I love playing games. Uh.
- 34:32Speaker 1: It's it's an escape, but it's also an avenue for
- 34:36Speaker 1: problems like learning, problem solving, improving yourself, keeping your mind sharp.
- 34:41Speaker 1: And I think it's getting to the point where more
- 34:44Speaker 1: and more of the mainstream is realizing the benefits of
- 34:47Speaker 1: that kind of interaction and the fact that we can
- 34:51Speaker 1: use that as a as a way to teach people
- 34:54Speaker 1: at a younger age that there's value in this and
- 34:57Speaker 1: that it can be valuable from a fund stand point,
- 35:00Speaker 1: and it can be valuable from a career standpoint. Being
- 35:03Speaker 1: able to go to work and enjoy what you do
- 35:07Speaker 1: and be able to share that with people on a
- 35:10Speaker 1: on a grand scale, it's just exciting and you know,
- 35:14Speaker 1: just being able to take the workout off and then
- 35:16Speaker 1: still enjoy enjoy that that piece from a from a
- 35:20Speaker 1: just I'm just relaxing and just wanna I want to
- 35:23Speaker 1: escape for a bit, right. It's great. You know, guys,
- 35:27Speaker 1: I'm talking to uh. If you want to put a
- 35:29Speaker 1: sports comparison, talking to the Michael Jordan and Lebron of
- 35:32Speaker 1: what they do, just put put the right hats on
- 35:34Speaker 1: it to see. As I wrap up to you, I
- 35:37Speaker 1: hate when people, when I meet people like these two guys,
- 35:39Speaker 1: they said, you know, we were just playing video game.
- 35:42Speaker 1: I'm just doing what I love. I'm gonna tell you something.
- 35:44Speaker 1: I could play video game, but it reached the point
- 35:47Speaker 1: where my skills set love. What's gonna keep it going?
- 35:51Speaker 1: I just had the skill set and I didn't happen.
- 35:54Speaker 1: So I always have to push people back like YouTube
- 35:57Speaker 1: and let y'all know how brilliant you are and how
- 36:00Speaker 1: different y'all are. Y'all can be in awe because at
- 36:04Speaker 1: the at a young age, you're seeing what if I
- 36:06Speaker 1: could have done that at their age, what I could
- 36:09Speaker 1: have been at my age. That's the all part that y'are.
- 36:13Speaker 1: But what's making it possible is that they can see y'all. Y'all,
- 36:17Speaker 1: y'all in results now. So I didn't have an end
- 36:20Speaker 1: results like you guys when I was playing game. I
- 36:23Speaker 1: didn't have a haunt and a herald to go. Man,
- 36:26Speaker 1: I could be like those two guys. Look at him, Wow,
- 36:28Speaker 1: they look just like me. So know that when I
- 36:31Speaker 1: say that, I don't say that in a in a
- 36:33Speaker 1: joking manner. I'm just labeling y'all correctly. Man, when you
- 36:36Speaker 1: stand out in the field, that separates you. When I
- 36:39Speaker 1: look at that, I look at Lebron on that Tonal commercial,
- 36:43Speaker 1: bro the thirty years, My body didn't look like that.
- 36:45Speaker 1: The thirty eight Come on that, y'all body probably don't
- 36:48Speaker 1: look like that now. Okay, they look gonna be weird.
- 36:51Speaker 1: You know, you know Jordan, you know he still has
- 36:56Speaker 1: the most popular shoe basketball shot out there, Michael Jordan.
- 37:00Speaker 1: It's almost sixty and so being relevant and uh, I
- 37:04Speaker 1: just want to tell you, man, do not undersetill y'all brilliance. Man,
- 37:08Speaker 1: you guys can share that little corny story that we're
- 37:11Speaker 1: just doing what we love. Now, y'all have beyond doing
- 37:15Speaker 1: what you love because love. I love to play video games,
- 37:21Speaker 1: but it hit I hit a wall with my talents,
- 37:24Speaker 1: just like I hit a wall with my talents with physics,
- 37:26Speaker 1: and I had to go to a different direction. God
- 37:28Speaker 1: gave y'all a gift, man, and I'm I'm I'm gonna
- 37:31Speaker 1: stick with y'all. Man, I'm gonna standing communication with you
- 37:34Speaker 1: guys to brother. I want to be there when y'all
- 37:36Speaker 1: start breaking the next ceiling of opportunity for people of color,
- 37:40Speaker 1: my daughter, everybody, because y'all the next stars, man, y'all,
- 37:43Speaker 1: the next future. You know, when y'all get fifty, man,
- 37:46Speaker 1: you know, y'all, y'all, y'all, they're gonna have award shows
- 37:48Speaker 1: with y'all with trouthes with y'all names on them. Okay, okay,
- 37:53Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Now hopefully, hopefully, you know, the people
- 37:57Speaker 1: that are giving us those awards are people that we
- 37:59Speaker 1: help get said. Oh, don't worry, brother, You know, you
- 38:03Speaker 1: know my life has been interested man, because you know,
- 38:07Speaker 1: I had a birthday the other day, and you know,
- 38:09Speaker 1: and you know, people always text me, man, thank me
- 38:13Speaker 1: saying what I did for their lives, what they like,
- 38:15Speaker 1: how I made a difference in there, And I was
- 38:17Speaker 1: just being Rashawn, you know, just like I'm being Rashawn
- 38:20Speaker 1: with you guys right now. I'm gonna tell you how
- 38:22Speaker 1: I think you can take it however you want to
- 38:24Speaker 1: take it. But I'm telling you the truth. Stop acting
- 38:27Speaker 1: like y'all regular be the stars who y'all are. Y'all
- 38:31Speaker 1: are doing stuff. Man, I can only just admire. I can't.
- 38:36Speaker 1: I can't even cover here. I can pick up this phone,
- 38:39Speaker 1: I can dial it, but like y'all can take this
- 38:41Speaker 1: phone and do something else with and I go, really,
- 38:43Speaker 1: that's the same phone I got. Wow. So I'm just
- 38:47Speaker 1: telling you exercise your brilliance and don't let it be
- 38:50Speaker 1: understood by anybody, even in an interview. And it's and
- 38:53Speaker 1: it's the thing I do I call bragging acknowledging your greatness.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Continue to acknowledge your greatness fellows, because you're all very
- 39:00Speaker 1: very special. Thank if you coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
- 39:03Speaker 1: Appreciate job, H