Blake Hall - Combat, Service, and Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.408]
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My guest today is Blake Hall. Blake is the cofounder and CEO of ID. Me, a secure digital identity network with over a 100,000,000 members. He was an officer in the United States Army and served our country for 4 years as a rifle platoon leader, battalion reconnaissance platoon leader, and as a battalion logistics officer. We explore his formative years in the military and transition into entrepreneurship. Blake shares powerful stories from his time leading scout sniper missions in Iraq, including how his unit achieved a 90% success rate in high stakes operations through relentless preparation
Thanks, Patrick. I think you're always formed by your childhood first, and I grew up around amazing people in my life. My grandfather was a war hero in World War 2, fought and landed at Anzio as a 17 year old Browning automatic rifleman, standing guard in the Rhine when Germany surrenders, won a Bronze Star with Valor for crawling out in front of 3 German machine gun nests as he was splicing a line that allowed the forward observer to call in artillery that beat back a Nazi counter attack that was about to wipe out his battalion, which today would probably be a different medal, but was a bronz
And what was the brief timeline of your personal experience in the armed forces? What did you do? Where were you? Paint the picture for us.
I I went through ROTC at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. And in 2000, it was peacetime. It was just a way to pay for school. And then 9:11 happened. And overnight, I realized that when I gradua
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