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Alex Lofton

lines on the record: 55
first: 2023-05-11
most recent: 2023-05-11
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Oh, yeah. I jumped on the campaign versus a volunteer. I showed up with my tie on and I brought in a briefcase and they said, you know, what's your background? What do you hope to do here? I said, I would like a paid job preferably in policy. And I prefer a five-day week situation. And they said, well, you can take off that tie, never wear that again, sit in the corner making phone calls for a field department all hours of night if you want to do that. And didn't sound too glamorous. I said, heck, why not? And I jumped on as a volunteer, but I came for What this guy, Barack Obama, was saying, and the vision for the future that I agreed really resonated with me. And I ended up staying because of the people that were showing up”
2023-05-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh man, it was awesome. My first job out of college is like working for this guy who, first of all, my parents thought I was crazy. I was graduating from a very expensive school and I had to take out debt. And I was choosing to go work for this campaign where I was going to get paid $800 a month. My parents were like, why are you working for this guy no one can pronounce his name? Hillary Clinton is obviously going to win”
2023-05-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She passed her home along to my parents. So it's a first example of intergenerational wealth being transferred to. Someone, and that was the game changer”
2023-05-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Did They did not own a home until I was 12, 11 or 12. My grandmother, granny, my mom's mom, she was not only my best friend at the time, but was the first time in our family where someone owned something they could pass along. So when she died,”
2023-05-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would say like 80% of the reason my parents would fight would be over money. It would be about the month to month just making the next bill. How is that going to happen? What were we not going to do? And I didn't really quite understand because I would go. We went to a toy store, you know, I would just tell my mom, I want this toy so we couldn't afford it. And I would just say, well, just pull out your checkbook, just write a check. And I didn't know, no concept that a check had to be related to something in a bank account. That was out of this world to me. So I think as I got older, I appreciated how relative the entire world, how lucky we were and how actually not poor we were. But when you're around a bunch of babies of Microsoft.”
2023-05-11 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT