Steve Baxter
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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And so technical background.
And we used to go and exercise for, you know, four weeks to four months.
And back then, you know, you couldn't take enough books in four months to not go because it's actually really boring.
You go, you drive for three or four days, you dig a hole.
Every few days, someone will bring you something to repair.
And then that's how it sort of goes.
And it's really boring.
So I used to take books and you can only take so many books.
So I enrolled in part-time university.
So I ended up getting exemptions for me not finishing school.
I did part-time university, which is a computing science in the end, and that really fired my passion for IT.
I hate the word IT, but for computers.
And then I did this one subject where it was called Linux, which is a very popular operating system now.
And then I got booted up at home and plugged some modems in and went, holy dooly, you could charge people to use this.
It was just that sort of entrepreneurial brain fart.
Actually, Glenn Richards from Shark Tank calls it entrepreneurial brain farts, which I think is a really good term.
And then you start it, it's almost a bit like Gerber's, if you've read The E-Myth by Gerber, he talks about the accidental entrepreneur type thing.
It was that, but we jumped from a window that was open into the internet in the mid-90s, which was probably the 25th or 30th internet service provider in Australia at the time.
Within a year, they were 1,200.
That gives you an idea of how much it ramped up, if you know what I mean.
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