Amanda Knox

So I went into doing

progressive policy and advocacy work.

Then I did Obama, Obama campaign, first campaign.

And then after that election, people were like, are you going to go in the White House?

Everybody was going in the White House.

And I went to the NAACP.

My friend who I met doing anti-death penalty work, Ben Jellison, became the president and CEO of the NAACP.

And so I went as a senior advisor and right hand.

And so I had been at the NAACP for seven years.

And then I got a call from some investor friends in Silicon Valley who said, we think you should come into Silicon Valley.

And I remember I was doing my movement work at the NAACP, and I was happy.

I'm like, I'm great.

I couldn't even say.

I'll never forget my friend Albert Sanders.

We went to when they first started talking to me about Silicon Valley, and they reached out, and they were like, hey, we think you should come in this industry.

And I was like, I don't know how to code.

So this is like 2013.

So nobody's talking about Silicon Valley or tech in D.C.

Right, no.

And I remember I was like, I don't know how to code.