Will Schroter

And so instead of just letting everybody down gracefully, I instead started going to college for almost an entire year without actually being a student.

So I had my two full-time jobs when I graduated.

And then on the weekends, I went to school full-time as an actor.

It was this bizarre kind of chain of events.

A year later, I transferred to Ohio State University where I've had kind of a business and a home ever since.

I was still an actor because the funny thing is I still didn't care about college.

Although I'll say this, when you're making $5 an hour and that's what you're using to pay tuition, you kind of have to start to care about college a little or you really shouldn't be there.

By the way, I was more in the camp of, I probably shouldn't be there.

I hated college.

Oh, yeah.

And I was taking out these Pell grants and student loans and things like that just to pay for it.

School wasn't quite as expensive as it is today.

But I'd also say when you're broke making $5 an hour, school can be $10,000 for tuition or $10 million tuition.

Either way, you're broke.

Okay, so what was happening was I was starting to see that the web was kind of taking form, and there was very few companies doing anything with it yet because it's kind of hard to think back to, but no one understood what it was.

You were maybe one of a handful of people in the whole world that really understood what the internet was.

Now, mind you, I'm on a college campus in the Midwest in the United States, and people definitely don't know what it is.

And so I ended up starting this company.

and I was one of the first web design companies.

And I'm walking up and down campus trying to talk to business owners to tell them what the internet is, and if I can explain to them what the internet is, why they would need a web page, and why they would need me to build it.