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Not many people think about Comcast

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as more than just a cable company.

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Comcast Innovation Labs

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works in robotics, works in machine learning,

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artificial intelligence,

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augmented reality, virtual reality,

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quantum mechanics, quantum computing.

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I got a call from a recruiter within Comcast,

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“Hey do you mind speaking

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to us for a second?”

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And I was like,

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“As long as you guys are ok with me skiing

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and talking to you at the same time”

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And he was like, “That’s perfectly alright.”

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I talked to a bunch of engineers

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with different backgrounds,

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with different expertise

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that really spiked my interest

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and at that point I wanted to work here.

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My manager told me exactly like,

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“If you’re wanting to

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be an expert in something

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that we as a company

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haven’t looked into it, fine.

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Just let me know,

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and we will make it happen.”

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One of the things that I’ve been doing a lot

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is augmented reality,

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and how do you

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use that for our field technicians.

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I went ahead and built a prototype of it

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and we rolled it out within three months.

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In other companies

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it will take several years for that to happen.

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And it made me feel great.

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It made me feel like

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whatever degree that I got,

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whatever work that I put in

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was actually worth it.

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What I do is innovation.

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You have to be excited about things

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that we may have in the future

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and to bring that to a reality.

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A lot of people go half their lives

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without actually feeling

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that sense of accomplishment.