Jim Fowler

I am, Nathan.

Great to be here.

Well, that's a long and winding trail, Nathan, I got to say.

I needed a way to pay my way through college, so I went to University of Colorado on an ROTC scholarship.

When I graduated, I had to spend four years in the U.S.

Navy, and I did that as a Navy diver.

And that was awesome.

But I knew that that was not going to be a career I planned on paying my debt back to Uncle Sam.

And when I got out of the Navy, one of my best friends from college, he had moved back to his hometown in Idaho.

And I needed a partner to get into the ski business with.

So we were a couple of 26-year-old ding-dongs that didn't really know what we were doing.

And to say we bought the ski area would be the wrong way to think about it.

It was owned by a nonprofit organization.

But from basically age 26 to 30, we owned and operated this small ski area to call it a resort.

It was a fantastic experience.

I mean, I kind of look at that as my on-the-ground MBA.

I learned a lot of lessons about business that carried on into the tech world.

But basically, I hit 30, age 30 in 1995.

And I think when men hit their age of 30, they got to decide whether they're actually going to grow up and be adults or

And the whole Internet boom was just beginning.