Don McGuire

Oh, yeah.

Obviously, interviewing was difficult.

I was just fresh out of college.

I think I was in, you know, a lot of life is just showing up and being in the right place at the right time.

So I think it was a lot of that right place, right time.

They needed, they just opened up the market.

They needed to hire people.

And I showed up, you know, naive and fresh faced and ready to go and full of vigor.

And the GM just liked that.

And he gave me a chance.

And it was tough.

It was direct sales, driving up into farmers' locations in the Salinas Valley, trying to sell them this new technology, fortunately, which they saw value in because of their occupation and what they did.

But it was like one hour I'm selling to a farmer who's growing broccoli in the Salinas Valley.

And then two hours later, I'm selling to some wealthy person in Pebble Beach.

And it was this really interesting mix of customer base.

And so you have to adjust your style, take the tie off when you go out to the Valley because they think you're trying to convert them to some religion or, you know, put your tie back on when you go to Pebble Beach because, you know, they want a little bit more formal interaction.

That was the groundwork that started it all.

And I fell in love with tech and I fell in love with

The fact that this industry and the broader tech industry is always moving, is always changing, always innovating, luckily fairly recession-proof over the years.

So I really fell in love with that dynamic.