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…Let's start—because this is Acquired—way back. Kevin, I think we have it right. You grew up in Vegas, but your family is from Wisconsin, which is a state we've talked about recently with Marc Andreessen growing up there and Beeple on your show. What was that like? My earliest memories, I was born in Redding, California, but I don't remember it. Then I remember living in Oregon for a bit, which is where I am now, in Portland. But we were living in a little town called Salem. Then when I was in second grade, we moved out to Las Vegas because there was just work there. That was a place where my dad could find a job. We moved out there. I grew up thinking it was normal for 7-Elevens to have slot machines in them. There were just a lot of things that Vegas does to you. It was one of those things where I got geeky, got into computers, and then quickly realized that the action really wasn't in Las Vegas. If you want to be in the hotel industry or work in gaming in some capacity, that was the place to be. But when I was around 18 or so, I realized, well, I should probably think about moving someplace else like Silicon Valley or someplace that had a bigger tech scene. I'm super curious. How did you figure that out? I felt the same way. I grew up in Pennsylvania, but I had no idea that Silicon Valley existed. What was the process by which you learned that this was a thing? Because there's the internet, but it wasn't obvious in the way it is now.…

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