Doug Sullinger

So in automotive, the biggest thing that they do is they're trying to automate supply chain.

How do I get my parts into a car as fast as we possibly can?

I worked in that space for a number of years and then probably almost 10 years I worked in that space.

Then from there, I found myself realizing that I could be more, more, have more flexibility as my own entrepreneur.

And then that's where I started Vendita.

Vendita then basically was a technology reseller, but we would take technology from some of the biggest companies and then we would help apply that to different business problems.

That was a very successful company until the about

towards the end of COVID, the cloud changed.

Everybody talks about cloud computing.

And then really what we were doing is where software is now be held in a cloud, not versus on-prem.

On-premises is where you buy it, put it into a server.

That was a journey that kind of got me to where I realized that selling the software itself and trying to implement on-premise software was not really a future for me.

I saw a place in 2022 where I met a really good friend of mine and she's now become more than that.

She was in commercial real estate.

And so she asked me just to go along for a ride and said, hey, let me introduce you some of my clients.

And I'd seen where technology that I had been in had kind of peaked and gone through, starting to go through a lull at the end of COVID.

And now we started looking at what was the latest and greatest thing that was going to change the way people did work.

I go back to a bit of a history.

If you look at client server, this is what we had server, a mainframe server.

We all tied into it.