Don McGuire

It drives my wife crazy because, you know, she like...

Get in there, get this stuff, get out.

And I actually browse, you know, and I'm looking at, oh, wow, this is interesting merchandising on the floor.

Why are they putting these stickers on the floor?

Or why are these end caps things like this?

And that's super interesting to me because it's merchandising, it's marketing, it's how they're telling their story and getting someone to sort of look at them or understand their product and then possibly buy it.

And so for me, that's interesting.

So I fell in love with marketing first, but then I really didn't know what to do with it.

coming out of college.

And so I went like a lot of college graduates who didn't know where they wanted to end up.

I did a little interviewing, on-campus interviewing, you know, sell me this pencil, do this, do that.

But there weren't a lot of entry-level marketing jobs at that time out of college.

You pretty much had to go a sales route.

And so I was like, I'm not sure about this whole thing.

And I was lucky enough where I'd saved a little bit of money.

And when my parents asked me what I wanted for graduation, I said, I would love a plane ticket to Europe.

and a backpack and i would love to just go backpack around europe for as long as my money would last me and they granted that wish and i flew to europe like three days after graduation backpacked around for about seven months

ran out of money, figured out how to get some more money.

And my parents actually came through with, because I was like literally stranded, I think in Greece with no money.

And I think they wired me some to American Express, but I stayed as long as I could.