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Daniel Lurie

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“I saw people falling and I kept going to work. I was kind of in shock as we all were, right? But why I talk about that story is I got to be at Robin Hood the next two years helping to rebuild that city. And Robin Hood was at the epicenter of it. And we were helping to rebuild those. People's lives that were hardest hit by those attacks, and those were low income New Yorkers. So it was an honor to work there. And then I started thinking”
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“And he wanted to bring people together to give back to issues that aren't so sexy, that aren't a library, that aren't a university, that aren't a hospital or a museum. And he brought his friends along and they started giving back to issues that really were important to the city of New York. I ended up working there. My fourth day of work was September 11th, 2001. I was just figuring out the train system, the subway system and figuring out which train I should take that morning. And I ended up a block away from The World Trade Center exit. And actually, had I taken another train, I would have ended up inside the World Trade Center. And so I got out and the first plane had just hit. I looked up.”
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“Who made a lot of money in the downturn in 1987, he wanted to invest his philanthropic dollars like he was his for-profit dollars. He wanted a return”
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“And still is. So I ended up in New York City. I tried a couple different jobs, including a consulting job that was not for me. But it led me to the Robin Hood Foundation. And that's where”
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“Well, because you know you grow up in San Francisco. We've always had great wealth in this city and we've also always had great poverty. And then you have a president or a presidential candidate talking about these issues. And so there was a little connection there for me. It didn't work, it didn't go the way we wanted”
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“I couldn't hack the public policy degree. I couldn't handle the statistics. I ended up getting a Poly degree. But I heard him speak. And what struck me was that he talked about 35 million people that were uninsured in this country at that time. He talked about the 12 million kids going to school hungry. So you had this Rhodes Scholar Hall of Fame basketball player. I was more interested in the basketball. Amazing person. And he wanted to...”
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“I wanted to go work for Bill Bradley instead of going into management consulting or the legal profession. He came and spoke at Duke when I was a student.”
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“Yeah, it's definitely, we have a proud tradition and a proud heritage there. And that's something I grew up around. So it was sort of embedded in me and my siblings. I went off. I went to. Duke University the day after I graduated, I found myself in Bill Bradley's. Campaign headquarters for president in West Orange, New Jersey, and ended up in Iowa as a field organizer for nine months.”
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“When I was two, they both found great partners. I've always said that I had four incredible parents. My stepfather was part of the Levi-Strauss family. He passed away 11 years ago. And I grew up in a family that had a family foundation. And grew up with a father and stepmother that were also involved in the community. And so from an early age was pushed on that.”
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“Well, my dad was a rabbi. My stepfather and my mom and my stepmother, I sort of won the lottery in the sense of if you have to have your parents get divorced.”
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