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…We’ll return to Reddit time and time again, my friend. So yeah, you took the leap into Netflix. So what was that like? This is one of those things where when you talk about it, people love to trivialize this because it’s like, oh, you’re taking a leap of faith by going into a fang company. And in 2013, sounds super risky. My wife was 36 weeks pregnant. We had to travel to a place where we knew not a soul. We were about to have our first kid. We didn’t even have a doctor. If you don’t know what having a baby does, you kind of want a relationship with a doctor. There’s a whole thing that goes on there. So it was a really hard and great experience. So I went to a job in which their culture deck… So during this time, this is where Netflix still had kind of that old generation X feel to it. Their culture deck was hire fast, fire fast. It was very in your face about like, “Hey, this is how we operate. You don’t meet the standards, we kick you out.” So it’s like I’m leaving a place where it’s more secure to go to a place I don’t know anybody, to a job that’s bold in its claims about firing everybody with a wife that’s just about to have a baby. And I’m from Montana and every Montanan’s born with a natural dislike of California. So there’s all these things kind of flowing into it where it’s just going to be like, wow, this is a very intense experience. And it was hard for sure. It wasn’t just some easy simple experience that we were just like, oh, well, I work now at Fang. We had to kind of work through that. Having a kid was very difficult. Our first kid was very difficult. Not having any family around to ever help you took a much larger toll on my wife than me, for sure. What was the technical learning curve for you? You showed up in your plaid pants, dressed up?…

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