Emil Michael on why he left Silicon Valley to join the Department of War: "Most Patriots figure out a way to give back — and there's lots of ways to give back." "I'm an immigrant. My first language was Arabic. I moved to this country. I get to Silicon Valley... I've been able to participate and build some of those interesting companies... and it was the right time in my life to say, okay, this is the way I'm going to serve my country." "I want to have my kids see it so that they can see that our system doesn't come for free. People — they have to have builders, people who care, people who sacrifice to do it." "I hope everyone else who's in the startup world finds their own moment to do that, if not in business, but after, in the right point in your career and all that, because we need more people to do that because we used to have government service as an honored profession." "We can't forget that we need Patriots to come do these kinds of things every now and again." @emilmichael @USWREMichael @DoWCTO @davidu