Patrick Campbell

So I built this thing that basically said, hey, I know the quant team told you that these are the accounts you should focus on, but they don't have these bottom-up inputs.

Put in these bottom-up inputs and we'll prioritize it.

I think the first quarter I did it, I hit like 180% without like working that hard.

And then I started scaling it manually across the sales teams.

I made Google a ton of money.

But the point I was trying to make was like, they gave me an award and like a $5,000 bonus.

And they were like, yeah, we're going to shut this down.

And I was like, why?

They're like, well, it's really cool.

But like this is like...

you know, $600 million opportunity isn't big as this billion dollar opportunity and it's Google, right?

And I was like, well, can I like work on it?

No, no, no, no.

You haven't been here two years.

You have to like go be a salesperson still.

And it was like, I was like, screw this, right?

Like if I'm going to bounce my ass, like I want to, I want to kind of at least fail on my own and succeed on my own kind of a thing.

And so, yeah, that's what led me to startups basically.

And then the common theme was when I was at Jim Barra for nine months, I was like, ah, this culture isn't great.

And I was like a young punk-ass kid too.