Garry Tan

I could just start cold calling people on the internet.

And so I found this company called Infolane.

They, funny enough, made city websites.

And they made like the city of Fremont website.

And I thought that was cool.

And I just cold called them and said, hey, my name's Gary.

I'm 14 years old.

I'm a award-winning web designer.

I'm looking for a job.

Are you guys hiring web designers?

And so I got that first job, rode my bike about two miles over to InfoLane, this tiny little three-room office.

The main tech guy was this guy named Andy McRae, who's like –

bearded unix programmer like just grizzled really knew his tech this classic cto and then the ceo was this guy named david hillstrom and he had the slick back hair and he had like the finance shirt that had the white collar but then like the blue stripes underneath

and then the pleated khakis and the suspenders.

He was a fascinating guy, honestly.

He taught me the value of look someone in the eye and a strong handshake.

That wasn't something my dad was going to teach me because he never learned that.

He couldn't figure that part out.

So this was a really interesting Motley Crue.

At home, everything was a mess.