My Clearview.AI Interview On France 24
I always thought my French debut would have a bit of fanfare...
Thank you to everyone who watched the France 24 interview which is finally telling my story as a cofounder of Clearview.AI.
I commend the hour long documentary to your attention. It’s in English but if you want, you can hear me speak French in it. As my lawsuit against Clearview.AI unfolds I expect the truth to come out. It always does, doesn’t it? That’s the beauty of discovery and America’s legal process. Will I win? I think so but who knows? I’ve got the truth on my side.
Unfortunately I’m limited by my attorney on what I can say — yes, that’s extremely painful — but please know that I forgive those who tried to ruin me. We can always work anything out, Hoan & Richard. Choose the path of honesty. The world needs it. I always give people the opportunity to do the right thing.
Careful observers will note the American flag hat, the British convertible, the National Portrait gallery, the leather jacket and of course the ostrich Tecovas boots. You didn’t really expect me to wear my California flip flops did you? (Shout out to my friend and classmate, Brandon Windle who cofounded Tecovas.)
My handling of Lincoln’s death mask was a choice too. For all his faults Lincoln kept the country together. He preserved the Union. He did it at great cost — including his own life. But it had to be done.
We gotta keep the Americana alive! After all, I won the Lincoln contest all throughout elementary and middle school. I won First Prize, naturally. (Jake Joyce, middle, is the son of Brian Joyce, a mobster who was a state senator and who once threatened my father who was on to him! The elder Joyce was indicted by the Justice Department and took his own life.)
A friend who I introduced Hoan to watched the documentary with me. He reminded me that Hoan was obsessed with Adam Neumann, the Israeli cofounder of WeWork, and of Masayoshi Son, the guy behind SoftBank. Why?
When you don’t have your own style you have to steal others.
When you have no sense of yourself you have to lie.
What a terrible way of living your life. You don’t have to live this way.