Kelsey Hightower

So I do everything.

I open a business account just so I can cash the check.

But at that point, I'm like, oh, this pays more than this does.

And so I got really good at doing those network installs.

I really got good at troubleshooting because sometimes someone gave them a USB modem, lightning comes, the USB modem is fried, and then you would swap them out for a network card.

And eventually, I decided, I can probably do my own business.

And I decided to get some office space, so I opened a small computer store.

Right outside of Atlanta, I would buy parts from the distributors.

I was just like 19, 20 years old.

And I wasn't buying enough to really qualify for an account.

But luckily, one of the smaller computer stores I used to buy parts from gave a recommendation to the distributors.

Like, hey, this is our guy.

He's just getting started.

And they gave me an account.

And I was able to buy motherboards and GPUs.

And people would come over and they'd bring their kid and they would have a parts list.

I want a computer with all these things.

And we would assemble machines and sell them, but also it was the headquarters for all the other service calls.

So I did that for like three, four years.

That ended up evolving into, at the same time, now we're talking like 2000, 2001, a lot of the music studios were moving from analog to