Kelsey Hightower

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And I was like, wow, what an interview.

A 20 year career at that point, never had an interview that made me feel that way.

And so I actually was going to go to NASA after CoreOS.

I even signed the employment agreement.

I was going to move to Pasadena, California and work at NASA on the Mars mission and lead up the infrastructure and the infrastructure teams.

And of course, Google called and was like, hey, come to Google.

And at that point, I was like, for what?

You have hundreds of thousands of employees.

I admire Google.

I've been there before, but not in that capacity.

I was going to go to the headquarters.

Yeah, not to the data center.

Not to the data center, but to the headquarters.

And I've always admired people like Brian Grant, Eric Toon, Don Chin, all of these wonderful people that I got to work with through the Kubernetes community.

In many ways, I felt like I was already working on the team because by that time, I had commit access to Kubernetes.

So I kind of felt like all the things I wanted to achieve in that regard was there.

And so I was like, why would I come work there?

I was just going to be a cog in the wheel.