David has had what he calls "an interesting life". A Los Angeles native, his travel adventures began at age 5. In 1964 when he turned 14, he asked his parents if he could study abroad and, to his surprise, they agreed – provided he find a good school and get accepted, which to their horror he did. He spent a year at the Lugano campus of The American School in Switzerland. It changed his life. Since then he has worked and traveled throughout the world. While in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1980’s, he was introduced to Tony Tan (see below), and the bonds of friendship continue to grow. David often gets told that his visions of business and the world are way ahead of their time. This was proven true once again in 1997 when he conceived of Infinite Humanity. The Internet was just learning to crawl and had very limited capacity. Transmission speeds were slow, storage was minimal and expensive, security and privacy were sketchy, e-commerce was just being born, and few people even had home computers and a phone was just that, a wired to your wall phone. He knew the Internet would evolve and grow to something which would impact virtually everyone's life, with the features needed to make Infinite Humanity possible. He just didn’t know it would take almost 20 years.
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