 If I get this job, not only will I get to work with really good people, my work might actually help make the world a better, freer place. Hi, I'm Brian Knight. I'm the director of the program on innovation and governance and a senior research fellow at Mercatus. I first came to Mercatus through Hester Purse, who I got to know through her work on securities law reform. One day she asked if I might be interested in applying for a job at Mercatus to do the financial technology and innovation work. I was perfectly happy where I was, but I figured it never hurts to take the interview. So I come in for the interview and I meet the people who were potentially going to be my new colleagues and I was impressed by each and every one of them. Not only were they all smart, and not only did they all seem to be nice people, but they were really committed to Mercatus' mission of making the world a better, freer place, more conducive to human thriving. I came out of that interview thinking, you know, if I get this job, not only will I get to work with really good people, my work might actually help make the world a better, freer place. And that's really meaningful. That is something, if I could accomplish some of that, that would be a pretty good legacy. I was very interested in the job and kept on sort of waiting for the phone call. And sure enough, the phone call came. And, you know, I've been at Mercatus three and a half years, have really enjoyed it, have done a lot of interesting work, not only on financial technology and innovation, but have done work on the politicization of the financial system and, you know, a host of other financial regulatory issues that I don't know if I ever would have gotten exposed to had I not come here.