Joel Kim Booster

All right.

You know, I think definitely Fire Island was a big inflection point for me in my life and my career.

But I think I had pretty modest goals set out for myself at the beginning.

And I think I really had to reposition the goalposts for myself, I think, after my first Conan set.

I never really expected to ever get to that point that soon.

And I think...

For a while, I think the goal was to quit my day job and be able to support myself doing this.

And so I quit my day job in 2016 and that was already, I think, far and away beyond whatever I had planned for myself.

You know, obviously, when you're a little kid, like it's about being famous and being on TV and all that stuff.

But I think like I quickly disabused myself of any notion of getting there.

Probably in college, it just felt so far away and so unlikely.

So once that all started to happen in 2016 or around there, I really was already like, well, this is far and away more than what I could have hoped for.

So as far back as 2016, probably.

I worked for a tech startup.

I worked for tech startups right after college.

One of my first jobs out of college was Groupon.

I was like the 70-something employee of Groupon before they went public when they were still a very young company.

And that got my foot in the door with tech.

And so all my day jobs from that point forward were at tech startups.

I mean, yes and no.