Ryan Petersen

Did you always know you wanted to do your own thing or?

No.

My brother was much more the entrepreneur than me.

Maybe still is.

And when I graduated, I went to UC Berkeley when I graduated from college.

It was 2002.

I didn't, I was thinking I'd go into like international development or something cool.

I like to travel internationally.

And I traveled a lot in the third world because I had no money.

So I was like traveling places I could afford.

And I was always very intrigued by like why some countries were poor and some were rich.

So I wanted to work in Europe.

some aspect of a try to get job in microfinance or government or something.

And no one, no one was hiring.

I got it.

I wasn't really, I didn't have a lot of skills when I graduated college, but my brother was hiring and he was running a startup.

And so I started working for him and that's how I got an entrepreneurship.

Which startup was that?

Well, we didn't really call ourselves a startup to be honest.

We were like buying motorcycles in China and selling them on the internet in the U S and sort of, uh, this would have been, I graduated in 2002.