Jim Fowler

But in 2003, the Silicon Valley was still in a deep freeze following the huge bust of 2001 and, of course, the aftereffects of 9-11.

But at that point in time, getting anything funded was really difficult.

But I...

I have a great story for your listeners that are thinking about starting a business because what happened was I got irritated at my boss's boss at this company I was working for.

And I came home and my wife said, honey, you are never going to be happy until you're running your own company.

Mm-hmm.

Exactly.

And you know, what do you do when you're 35 years old?

You know, you've got a kid who you got to put through college.

Um, you're making a really good salary as a VP of sales.

I was making, you know, very good money.

What's very good.

Well, hell, I don't know.

I was probably making three or 400 grand that year, which for me, you know, especially coming from the, you know, the, the ski area life was a lot of money.

Yep.

Um,

And I sat there and thought, how do you take the time to go do this?

Because it's a big risk.

And what I did was I knew that if I didn't really focus on this, it just wasn't going to happen.

So every single morning, I'm an early riser anyway from my Navy days, I got into the office.