Ken Rideout

Like I'm lost.

But my grades were terrible.

And when that happened,

I also at that point was floundering socially and started doing cocaine.

And then with all my buddies in Boston who were like literally like crazy people and we would just go out, do cocaine.

They would get into fights every single night.

It was like a...

I mean, two of like my five best friends are dead from either drug addiction or violence.

Like it was crazy.

It's like, it sounds hyperbolic to talk about it this way, but it was people who know me and know where I was like living understand that that was a very much a reality.

So when I got out of school, I was like, I got to get a job.

I got to get into sales.

And the last two years, I studied like a savage and got on the dean's list every year because I wasn't dumb.

I was just lazy.

I hated school.

But once I focused, I was like, just like with running races, I was like, I'm going to out-hustle everybody.

And I got good grades and I graduated and I needed a job.

And a friend was doing pharmaceutical sales.

And he's like, my buddy is the sales manager.

They're looking for someone in New York.