Kelsey Hightower

Eventually you settle down, you get a family, and you do the math, and it turns out people kind of over-glorify entrepreneurship.

I think a lot of people believe there is tremendous upside, right?

The type of entrepreneurship we talk about with software companies, the upside is crazy.

But when you're doing like selling parts or service business, unless you plan to open lots of stores and, you know, grow a larger employee base, it's not the same growth trajectory as software companies.

And so I kind of did the math.

After four years of doing that, I said, look, I want to settle down.

And if you've been an entrepreneur before, you know, employees get paid first.

The owner gets paid last.

And there are months where you get paid last.

Or you don't get paid at all.

And now you're kind of drawing from savings because it's not their problem.

But I did well overall.

Like I did very successful.

But I remember it's like, you know, I think I'm ready.

And so I looked around and Google had data centers nearby.

And I felt like I had a great combination of skills.

I understood, you know, the racking stack part of the world.

I understood the physical part of the networking stack.

I understood everything from Linux to Windows.

I had an entrepreneur mindset.