Pam O'Hara
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So, you know, unfortunately, I'm not sure that this is a practical advice.
It is not my husband.
I actually met my lead developer and then CTO on the playground.
Our children were playing on the playground and, you know,
as often happens when you're the adult standing on the edges, you start talking to the other parents.
And we quickly realized, you know, honestly, we were the only two geeks in our little, you know, bedroom community and outside Providence, Rhode Island.
And we just hit it off.
And we're talking about sort of our dreams and aspirations.
He was actually a engineer at Amazon at that point.
And we both had sort of big visions for what this cloud technology that we were helping build, watching be built, could do for small businesses at that point, 2006.
You know, there were a lot of big enterprise tools kind of rolling out, but there really wasn't.
Small businesses weren't benefiting from this great technology.
There was, you know, you would go into my daycare center and there was this giant wall-sized whiteboard.
And that's where they kept like every kid, every parent, every schedule, right?
On this giant whiteboard.
I'm just like...
There's got to be a better way, exactly.
We are.
Yes.
We are self-funded.