I mean, when I came into it-- that was probably a year into your doing sit-down interviews with people. Draper had done a number of sit-down interviews with people from really across the spectrum.And part of that was seeing how people were on camera.
What's interesting, too-- you asked about the straight white man and access and the food, the eating, at Tee's house. Draper had the brilliant idea.Our DP was an old friend of mine, who's a straight white man.
Around the time, we were thinking of doing this dinner at Tee's home. And Draper said, let's just leave Mike in there with them. And we went off for an hour or two and just let them go.
And identity is antagonistic. Imagine Don Draper , a genius of human psychology, meeting Steve Jobs, a genius of design, coming together, having a baby.
when no one else was even looking at this and considering this as fine art. And I think Draper certainly turned to Henry's wisdom a lot about immersing yourself in other people's worlds and not only helping-- the comfort on both sides.
And I think all of the people who participated have, in retrospect, been happy they did it and are incredibly grateful to Draper for providing them the forum to do it. I also want to thank my producers-- Townes Coates and Henry Chalfant and our story consultant, Chris Bram-- who gave me so much support
I had chose the winemaker of the year two weeks after I got there. And chose Paul Draper at Ridge. And so, actually, didn't even make the trek to Cupertino, because he was in London and had to spend three hours on the phone with him,
OK. And the reason I've learned about this-- I've been working on this for 30 years because I've built companies, I run a venture philanthropy firm, we build non-profits-- Draper Richards Kaplan-- and everything I'm trying to do, every day, is get people to reach their potential. Why? Purely selfish on my part.
a second pair of clothes and as as it became progressively cheaper they could start using cloth and other things they could put up draperies and and upholster furniture um but finally you get to the 20th century the middle of the 20th century and cloth is cheap and a further price reduction just isn't going to provoke a lot of people to go out and
these he had developed a new style, a new artistic technique and this goddess was a direct reflection of that. It was this wet drapery style and so it was a clear reference right back to what our historians would consider really the apex of Western civilization, the highest moment of classical Greece that you can come up with.
And she wanted him to promise that he would name it after her husband. So it became the Henry Draper Memorial. And so this is a textbook image of a spectrum, This is what people usually think of the rainbow and the absorption lines.
And he promised her a real job if she would come back, and she did. And she made the first Henry Draper classification of 10,000 stars, which was published and she was credited for it.
They were the high tech gadgets of their time. And these guys like Don Draper spent a lot of time with photographic equipment, single lens reflex cameras, all that sort of thing.
"Cars," Lightning McQueen, arrogant, brattish sports car, lost in the middle of a small American town, learns the values of friendship, love, Because he's not even Don Draper , at all.
"Cars," Lightning McQueen, arrogant, brattish sports car, lost in the middle of a small American town, learns the values of friendship, love, A character starts off as Don Draper or Tony Soprano.
The late 1800s. OK, that's the old suburbs. I'm talking like Don Draper time. 19-- I have to look.
This one, you can see, I was on FaceTime, and I was even in a hotel. You can kind of see the bad drapery in the background. And yet we had a moment where we were laughing.
I had practical navigation at the Naval Academy. And I'd studied inertial and digital under Doc Draper at MIT. And I had led tests and analysis of inertial navigation for the whole Air Force at one point.
And just-- yeah, all kinds of things. I think of lot of credit goes to Draper for his style of engaging people. You don't come on as a person who's going to, well, let's get the story, and then you'll never see them again.
And that's what we're watching, or that's what we watched, over the course of eight seasons of "Mad Men." How does he get the life he thinks he wants? Or is it really the same from Don Draper 's time today and tomorrow?
And my post-doc and Yanni Loukissas and I put together this app which is a-- basically we got the raw downlink from the LEM from one of the Draper engineers who had it on microfilm in his basement, something that NASA didn't have. We scanned it and OCR'd it, and then reprocessed all the data, including the audio into this sort of richer view of how
It's not how it went down. I didn't grow up thinking that I wanted to be Don Draper type person or anything like that. Right, right. I was working as a community manager, social media manager, at this startup, and then, as any startup typically would, they said,
The black spot is a penny. And so with all this money-- Mrs. Draper 's money was the equal of the entire operating budget of the observatory. So Pickering was free to hire more women.
I had one follow-up to that, actually. I am curious-- so with TV shows like "Startup U" that focuses on Draper 's program, and also things in the news like, for example, the Theranos story-- in some sense, it seems to be that nothing you could possibly write
And that's him singing, and he scored all this as well. And I think there was a sensitivity toward-- and I think part of Draper -- musical vision of this, was something that was very rhythmic. Because you have that rhythm of the city accompanying these personal stories.
And we're walking past. And of course, then I realized that Draper is no longer walking here and that he's stopped and is going back to wait until they take a little break. And said, could I come back one day?
Were they, when they were talking about-- No, it were not. And it's so interesting, because Draper and I were there together. And the interview area was set up down in their basement.
And that's what we're watching, or that's what we watched, over the course of eight seasons of "Mad Men." How does he get the life he thinks he wants? Yeah, so when you talk about Don Draper as a profile of an ideal "Mad Men" in his time, two questions.
some niche applications. You speak of the Drapers , and you meet a lot of people.
What else? There's no background drapery.
On the way there, stopped over in San Francisco to see the Drapers , Adam and Tim Draper , who-- my only motivation was really just
If you took that away, now he's like a smooth Don Draper .
His younger brother was a photography pioneer, was also at MIT. And this man, this is Dr. Henry Draper who was a medical doctor but was a real pioneer in stellar photography, and not just taking pictures of starscapes but using prisms to split the starlight into spectra
because she discovered a comet in 1847. And the young woman, Antonia Maury, was Henry Draper 's niece. And she went to Vassar College, where Mariah Mitchell was professor of astronomy.
And I fully expected-- here we are, like two middle-aged men. And the mothers had-- I mean, they'd known Draper before. That maybe have been the first time they both met me.
I was presenting with pieces of cardboard, like Don Draper in "Mad Men." I had boards, right?
So one of the tag lines for the show is "Where the truth lies." And you write that the main insight into Don's character, and the most important conceit of the show, is that Don Draper can lie anywhere except in advertising. And why is that?
And that's what we're watching, or that's what we watched, over the course of eight seasons of "Mad Men." How does he get the life he thinks he wants? Like what is the main message that the show is trying to convey to the audience through the journey of Don Draper ?
He's the O in BBDO; he's kind of the Don Draper , the star of Mad Men, of his day, very swank, dapper fellow.
it without them. You know, Draper labs started doing inertial navigation for submarines years and years and years ago and they designed ours too. Let me tell you a good example.
Google's very interested in. He's also both an Ashoka and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation fellow. He's also been formally recognized as a leading social innovator by the Aspen
massive people who've decided that this this really is what that what they want to do bill draper the head of the shogun a
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And that makes his own kind of internal struggle to understand what's motivating him, and what makes him tick, even more poignant. So I wonder, are there Don Drapers out there? Were there, are there people who just walk into a pitch like that and just-- And kill?
Very delighted that it hadn't caused the problem and fallen over and anything like that, and Adam and Tim Draper , who then dawned on me were very famous
He said you were brought on the show to be the bad guy, to be an antagonist to Don Draper .
And both-- there is a lot of more innovative, smaller donors, like Google.org, Echoing Green, Draper Richards Kaplan,
There is a misconception, I feel, in tech, that the problem women face is like Don Draper sitting
And that's how-- Could you walk us through, maybe, how "The Carousel" came about? At the end of Season 1, the main character, Don Draper , has had-- his marriage is breaking up, his business is falling apart, his brother has just committed suicide.
Yeah. I thought it was really interesting, because I've noticed when I watch TV shows on my laptop in my bed, I feel really close to Don Draper .