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…Totally. Because we're having that enormous problem here, I'm going to pry even deeper. You did not move to the Bay Area to work at TechTV. Was your first job digital marketing for an online furniture retailer? That's right. Basically, there was a company called Next Office that had hired me to come out and just really track all of their ad campaigns and ad spend. They had a marketing team that was going out and buying banner advertisements. People will click on those and eventually lead all the way down to checkout. They wanted to know what the conversion rate was like and where they should be spending their money. It wasn't ideal for me, but I knew at that point, I'm like, I'll take any job that gets me to the Bay Area. What can I do to get me out there? Because it was the.com boom. I was reading about it in magazines and it was of crazy Web 1.0, just insane valuations, parties, and just all the madness that you saw, IPOs. I was like, I got to get out there. I got to get out there. I went online and I posted something on monster.com, like the jobs board. Mike Maser, who later became really good friends, reached out to me and was like, hey, I think you'd be great for this role. We had a phone interview, then they flew me out, gave me a job offer, and I took it. Super cool.…

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