Irish Seaside Roots

Will shares his deep connection to the ocean from growing up in Ireland.

"I grew up by the seaside in the southwest of Ireland. I've always been obsessed with the ocean. If I wasn't on it, in it, or near it growing up, there was something wrong. In the same way that some people are afraid of the ocean, I'm kind of the opposite - when I'm away from it, I feel something wrong with me.

I've always been thinking about it. The ocean economy right now is already massive - it's about $3 trillion in annual spend in different ways. It covers 70% of the planet, 3 billion people rely on it as their primary source of food, a billion as their primary source of income. While we have robots on Mars and low-cost drones in our skies, the technology in our oceans still pales in comparison."