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A couple decades ago, Al Roth was working on solving this problem.
People who needed kidneys weren't getting matched effectively with people who had kidneys to donate.
Part of the kind of work I do is called matching theory.
Al helped create this, like, beautiful, elegant algorithm that would match kidney donors with recipients.
You obviously won a pretty big prize for this work.
I did.
I recommend it.
Yeah?
You like the prize?
It's a good prize, yeah, that's good to know.
Week long of parties, the prize he won, it was the Nobel Prize in economics.
As you might know, ALS matching work vastly improved the way people get kidneys and saved literally thousands of lives.
Like in the year 2000.