i had the privilege of working with both walter, also with charlie firestone and now with our expanded interest among many other programs. it is great to be year. we met because we decided to visit to see what it would look like, you know, as the fighting ended. what does it look like to rebuild a society? and as part of that i met jerry on the trip. i had taken a lot of video because it is a pretty interesting place. when i played it back all layer was his voice. the rest is history. >> redoing in baghdad? >> this was 2009. we begin reaching out to sea as in silicon valley to start to have a conversation with them about how technology was transforming places that were not in their immediate court business. it was really being felt, and it was certainly on that list. certain parts of russia were on that list. and so eric was, i think, the very first fortune 100 ceo possibly from a technology company to land in baghdad. this was a really big deal for us because we were trying to connect the world of expertise around the technology with the world of expertise around geopolitics. >> what

center for at least two decades of life for the privilege of working with walter but also with charlie firestone in the new society program and now with her standard interest many issues so it's great to be here. we met it has various of us decided to visit the rock to see what it would look like if the fighting had ended. what does it look like to rebuild a society and as part of that i met jared on the trip and i have taken a lot of video of baghdad and they played it back. all i heard was jared's voice. what were you doing in baghdad jared? back in, this was 2000 we began reaching out to ceos in silicon valley to start to have a conversation with them about how technology was transforming places that bordered all of their immediate corporate areas, the places where an extraordinary impact on technology was really being felt and iraq was certainly on that list. syria was on that list and parts of russia were on that list. and so eric was, i think the very first fortune 100 ceo certainly from a technology company that landed in baghdad and this was a very big deal for us. we were trying to conn