Eric Daimler

When did you do your tour of duty?

2016

What are you doing now?

Leading a firm that invests in, develops, and applies modern digital technologies to sleepy industries.

What would someone be surprised to know about you?

I really like minivans. I am really good at parallel parking.

What is your biggest accomplishment to date?

Once losing 50 pounds.

What would you tell someone who is thinking of joining the PIF program?

You will learn a fair amount about how our Federal government works.

If you couldn't be a PIF, what would you want to be?

Astronomer, MotoGP racer, or a writer.

If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would you meet and what one question would you ask them?

Baruch Spinoza: Given that your magnum opus, Ethics, was published posthumously, what would you add? Does the validation of quantum mechanics change your views?

What do you do when you aren't changing the world?

Hanging out with my family.