How Psychedelics Guided My Entire Career | Steven Huang

I actually started my career as a life insurance actuary. That's. Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry. Hi. Thank you. I was on an acid trip, and I realized I don't want to calculate when people die, but maybe I can calculate when people will leave companies. People leave companies more often than they die. And maybe I can use the same mathematical principles to build models that predict attrition. And I pitched that to Facebook when they were pre IPO company, and they're like, that's crazy. You're hired. Wow. And that was kind of the first glimpse into, like, wait, maybe I can use psychedelics for innovation and creativity. And psychedelics have always played a huge part in my career and career development. I was at a rave in 2015 on cocktail of psychedelics, and I had this epiphany of, like, the world needs to feel like this. And that was my foray into being the head of diversity and inclusion. I got to a point in my life early Covid when I was like, psychedelics have been so instrumental and powerful. Me. And I see all the hurdles that queer people and people of color have to accessing psychedelics. So on another psychedelic experience, like, I need to work in psychedelics. And that's how Maps found me. And they said, help us diversify our clinical trials. Help us raise money to train black and brown and queer therapists. I've kind of been letting psychedelics guide my career and brought me to Maps.