This episode might make your head explode... in the best way
possible. Walter O'Brien (AKA "Scorpion") (@walterobrienscs) is
the founder of Scorpion Computer Services and
ConciergeUp.com, a for-hire global think tank that provides
intelligence-on-demand as a concierge service. The tag
line for the latter is, "for any funded need." Need to
defend against chemical warfare? Move an entire manufacturing
operation over a weekend? Save a loved one from a deceitful
spouse? Thread the needle on a thorny legal issue? Become a pop
star in a foreign country? When Walter and his team of 2,000+
distributed geniuses say "any funded need," they mean it
literally. Born in Ireland, Walter was diagnosed as a child
prodigy with an IQ of 197. He became an Irish national coding
champion and competed in the Olympics in informatics. Fast
forward to today, he and Scorpion get paid to fix every
imaginable problem for billionaires, startups, governments,
Fortune 500 companies, and people like you and me. On the large
side, it ranges from mitigating risk on $1.9 trillion of
investments to inventing artificial intelligence engines to
protect United States war fighters in Afghanistan.
Walter is also the executive producer of the hit CBS TV show
Scorpion, inspired by his life, which has reached more than 26
million television viewers. I was introduced to Walter well
before the show, and we go deep in this conversation, with
lots of amazing and also hilarious examples of problem
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