David Eckstein

It was, who do you know?

And one position would open up every three or four years at a firm.

And basically the door would open up for a second and then it would close just as fast.

Being an analyst in New York City, very far away from Silicon Valley, my chances of finding a job there were very slim.

But what happened was I developed a thesis.

One of the companies that I tried to create when I was at WashU in St.

Louis was a cloud storage company where you could upload your music to the cloud and then downstream attend a web-enabled device.

And so I developed a thesis about the cloud in general.

And there were three companies that caught my eye, Box, Dropbox, and Atlassian.

I applied to all three.

And I was very fortunate that I ended up getting a job at Box.

And

Made it to the final rounds, got the job.

Coincidentally, the same week as my girlfriend, now wife, got a job at Twitter.

And we both went back into work and we quit and we moved to Silicon Valley a few weeks later.

It's really interesting that you say that.

I don't notice the 996.

I don't think about the 996.

But if I were to add up the hours, but the hours are my hours.

I choose when those hours occur and they're on my terms.