Patrick Campbell
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He didn't want me to be a lawyer, but he was like, if you don't want to be a doctor, then go be a lawyer.
The classic-
go from, you're going to be the college kid.
The first college kid needs to go be a professional.
Then he was also in the Navy.
When I went and worked in the Intel community in DC, he was very like, oh, that's great.
You'll have a job forever.
That's awesome.
You're doing good, honorable work.
And then I was like, I'm going to go to work at Google.
He's like, oh, that's fine.
Large company, you're going to be safe.
Then I was like, oh, I'm going to go to this venture-backed company.
And he's like, what?
What are you doing?
This is crazy, right?
And so I think from my origin story- Wait, what was the venture-backed company?
It's a company called Jimvara.
They were a Blue Nile competitor, customized jewelry.
And that was actually one of the first projects I got assigned.