Don McGuire

And he got that opportunity.

So kind of at the same time, I had an offer to jump back into the corporate pool

One of my partners fell ill, had to pull the ripcord for at least a year, and my other partner was entertained.

The signs are telling me, okay, it's time.

And I had an amazing five and a half years at Intel and learned a lot.

That's really helped me with this current gig because I played the Intel Inside Playbook for five and a half years.

So learning how to sell something intangible and market something intangible was Intel's game.

So it's definitely served me well in my role here at Qualcomm.

But that's how I got into Semi, in this part of the tech ecosystem, and was taking that leap into Intel, working with some really smart people.

I mean, I was there still with Intel's heyday.

Intel was still sort of at the top of the world then.

I think some of the signs were there that may not last forever, but it was definitely a fun time.

And like I said, met a lot of amazing people.

And then fast forward five and a half years, I was commuting from San Diego to Santa Clara, which, you know, kind of gets old.

You know, there's an opportunity, a good friend of mine who I'd worked with in the past, who's now my chief of staff here at Qualcomm, sent me a text or something saying, hey, there's this job opening down here.

I think you might be interested in it.

So I looked at it and I'm like, wow, living and working in the same city?

Hmm, that might be fun.

What a startup.

And so I threw my name in the hat and several interviews later, they hired me to run product and technology marketing for the company.