Don McGuire

It's called like cellular technology and it's going to be big.

And he'd been in telecommunications and aerospace and networking and all that boring stuff.

And I had no desire to go that direction.

And I said, you mean like car phones?

He said, yeah, like car phone.

I said, dad, I don't want to go to an auto stereo store and sell car phones.

I have a college degree, you know.

But he said, no, go to work for one of the companies that's building this and making this happen because it's the future.

I don't want to age myself.

And so I actually got this Time magazine that my parents had a subscription to and on the cover, no, it wasn't Time.

It was like it was Fortune or Forbes or something like that.

And the guy named Craig McCaw was on the cover and he had like a snake around his neck.

And there was a whole article on this guy who was like a rebel.

And he went and took his father's cable money and dropped out of Stanford and bought up all these licenses and was going to launch this cellular telephone company.

And I was like, wow, this guy looks pretty cool.

He's got a snake around his neck.

And I said, he'd be fun to work for.

And I literally interviewed with the local McCoss Cellular office in Monterey County, which was closest to where my parents lived in Santa Cruz at the time.

And I got a sales job.

And that's where it all started.