June 5, 2025 - Lael Alexander Multi-Topic Conversations Summary

Rhino Partnership Discussion (Opening Call)

Participants: Lael Alexander, Rhino Company Representative (Speaker 3)

Partnership Framework

The conversation opened with Lael discussing a potential CTO partnership with Rhino, showing his enthusiasm for working with experienced engineers: "I get up for the old guys, man. I love working with the older engineers, man. because they they don't have they don't have egos like some of the younger guys and try to make you feel like they know the whole book"

Operational Approach

Lael proposed a flexible engagement model: "I could serve see CTO position remotely but even better than that I think I'll probably develop the Rhino scrum works and bring some of my my team assets to just be that problem solver product maker group on behalf of Rhino"

Funding and Scale Discussion

The Rhino representative mentioned having capital stack together for Texas projects, while Lael identified their primary limitation: "the only thing that we the only thing that we missing this is this the scale wallet man that's all the only thing that we're missing is the wallet to scale"

Meeting Scheduling

They planned follow-up discussions, with Lael emphasizing regular communication: "let's let's stay let's stay in contact between now and don't let's not let a whole week pass by"

Strategic Visioning with Gary Sheng

Chief of Staff Dynamic

Gary positioned himself as chief of staff while describing Lael's broader potential: "I kind of want to position you to be president of the world I mean I'm intentionally being provocative here like I'm not saying we'd run for some office make some website but you understand like you that where where humanity needs to go as fast as possible is compassionate scientifically and technologically genius"

New Alexandria City Planning

City Naming Discussion: Gary suggested "New Alexandria" as the city name, referencing the library concept: "this the fourth one's gonna be the new Alexandria and obviously you know the library so what is the library you're creating it right"

Land Access: Lael revealed significant land holdings: "there's 80 acres 400 acres thousand acres I have access to"

Development Philosophy: Lael described the vision as "building Disney World but not just for amusement no it's a it's it's a living example of breathing yeah exactly so it's exhibitions"

Systemic Challenges and Solutions

Full Stack Civilization: Lael explained his frustration with intermediaries: "that's the whole thing that's that's a different level of peace I can't get it any other way" regarding owning the full stack of civilization.

Parasitic Intermediaries: He described problematic middle-men as "betweeners": "they're always there they're there on money they're there on big projects and they're there on small projects they just want to fill the space and starve a project so they're parasitic in nature they're not mutualistic"

Mutualistic Society Design: Lael outlined his vision for society based on "symbiotic natures" and "mutualistic" relationships rather than parasitic ones.

Emerald City Vision

Lael described New Alexandria as "Emerald City we're building Oz" with an educational model: "in the depiction of Oz the story people came to the city some stayed to become enablers of others but they were always coming to it to learn themselves find themselves and then go back out and flourish into the world"

Organic Growth Pattern: He emphasized the need for "jettison protocol" to avoid stagnation: "old habits old ideas all those things got to die they got to come in live and then they have to get out die you have to have that receivership and then that ejection"

Alpha School Strategic Assessment

Ethical Considerations

Gary expressed concerns about Alpha School's execution: "it's not even ethical for me to work at a company if they don't live up to their marketing because I could because I get hit I get hit up by some I've been getting text by texted by really great educator friends of mine"

Performance Standards

Lael set high expectations for educational innovation: "if it doesn't reach at least a rung that's three steps ahead of what they would have expected right it's got to have some shock value and something new that you just can't get from a traditional public school"

Video Archiving Session - China Work Documentation

Rediscovering Historical Work

Lael found extensive video documentation of his China projects: "I just remember that I had all these videos. I just remember I had all these videos on this computer. I hadn't sat in this desk in so long"

Educational Legacy Evidence

Previous School Operation: Lael showed videos of his previous educational facility: "This was my school that we went to" with comprehensive equipment: "I got every desk. I'm sending eight computers to Louisiana. I had all of the computer labs, all of the desks, all of the lab equipment, all of the microscopes, everything"

Life Phase Philosophy: At 51, Lael declared his educational focus: "I've said that in my life in 10 years since. I did my 10-year childhood, 10-year maturity, 10-year in every industry that I wanted. Entertainment, design, became a great guy internationally. Okay, that's 50. I'm in now the 51st year. The next 10 years, it's got to be education"

Manufacturing Innovation Documentation

China Relationship Evidence: Videos showed Lael's high-level relationships: "All the top CEOs in China, we knew each other like that. We hugged each other. We brought our families together" including "Tim Yates, that's the head of Qualcomm" and "Chairman of Skoda"

Technical Achievements: Documentation included his work on cooling systems: "I took all the pipes off of all the buildings in China. So that they could be beautiful buildings in China. And vase all of the condensation into the air. Which cooled down the atmosphere, the climate. And trapped the dust. So all of the dust was down. So now China has clear skies"

Phippsen Partnership: He showed his work rebranding Phippsen as New Airs: "China government put me with Phippsen and says, hey, he has 30% of Phippsen because he's about to bring new life into this ailing company in China"

International Recognition

Lael showed images of global recognition: "people were coming in from everywhere, man. Great Britain, England, everywhere to just have a moment with me"

Mayor's Office Visit and Demonstration

Technology Demonstration

Cooling Innovation: Lael demonstrated his 12-volt cooling technology: "12 volts of electricity. If I can turn 12 volts of... Freezing cold. Just like that"

Manufacturing Context: He explained his Tulsa location choice: "I chose Tulsa because most of the companies that I was doing work for had major contracts with Wal-Mart. So I would always fly into Tulsa and then drive to Bentonville"

Production Capabilities: Demonstrated their manufacturing ecosystem: "we make assembly lines and assembly plans for our companies and buildings So in the consumer electronics space, we were probably one of the larger manufacturing units in the space society"

Success Stories: Shared examples like BLU phones: "They came to our CES booth in 2011, picked the Whisper, the W30 phone, we built that phone for them... got them orders of 30,000 units a month... It's now a $5 billion company"

Educational Infrastructure

Trade School Vision: Lael mentioned his educational plans: "That trade school was teaching all the fundamentals of power mechanics, electrical engineering, transportation, all the trades that I need"

Lakeida Alexander on Affordable Housing Challenges

Developer Profit Motivations

Lakeida identified the core problem with affordable housing developers: "One of the issues with housing, if you're relating to that, is not so much that it is expensive, it's that a lot of these developers want to capitalize on earning more money per square foot, rather than focusing on doing it affordable"

Ethical Business Standards

She explained their approach to vetting developers: "you came to us because you said in your opening statement that you want to do affordable housing. Affordable housing, you have to ask them, what does that mean to you?"

Rejecting Exploitative Partnerships: "No, because... It defeats the purpose. Like, why am I going through this trouble? Why am I giving you the rock bottom price from me? Because I want you to sell it affordable, but if I'm cutting myself by 50 percent just so that you can up it by 300 percent, it makes no sense"

Government Funding Abuse

Lakeida described problematic patterns: "a lot of these companies, they come to us with fundings that they've gotten from the government, because they said they could give affordable housing, and so I'm morally, I'm not, I just can't see eye to eye with them. If you're getting the money for free, right, why aren't you doing what you're supposed to do with it?"

True Affordability Standards

She outlined realistic pricing: "we gotta have houses under 300,000, even under 200,000 to give people a pride, you know, even if, even if they can only get a job that's $20 an hour, you can't get a house over 300,000 with that"

Mayor Monroe Nichols Assessment

Optimistic but Realistic: Lakeida expressed cautious optimism about the new mayor: "I believe that he wants to. Now, how much pushback he's going to get is another thing, but he wants to. He wants to make all these changes, but I mean, how long do a mayor stay a mayor? Is it four years, five years?"

Operational Activities

Product Assembly and Packaging

Josh Lange coordinated product packaging with Gary's assistance, emphasizing consistency: "Every experience would be. Identical to the last experience"

Facility Preparation

The team prepared for the mayor's office visit, with cleaning and setup activities throughout the facility.

Video Archive Organization

Plans were made to purchase external hard drives to preserve Lael's extensive video documentation of his China work and educational projects.

Key Themes and Insights

Lael's Global Perspective

The conversations revealed Lael's frustration with American business culture compared to his China experience: "these people over here, they act like, oh, I'm trying to get into their club. And I'm like, what do you mean? I was already in the club. I was at the highest level of the club"

Educational Mission Crystallization

Lael's commitment to education became clear as his life's next phase: "I really want to do it. This is what I did. This is the rest of my life"

Systemic Change Vision

Both Lael and Gary demonstrated deep thinking about systemic change, from education to city planning to business models, with emphasis on mutualistic rather than parasitic relationships.

Family Business Integration

Lakeida's involvement in business operations and ethical decision-making showed the family's unified approach to business and social responsibility.

The day represented a convergence of Lael's various initiatives - from potential corporate partnerships to city development, educational vision, and direct community impact through affordable housing - all unified by his systematic approach to solving humanity's challenges through innovative technology and ethical business practices.