>> I thought for the longest time that I wanted to be a lawyer.
And so as I was going through school, I gravitated toward a lot of classics courses just
because I enjoyed the subject matter.
I had took Latin and Greek.
I enjoyed that.
I studied Latin in high school, so that was just kind of a natural continuation.
I always thought I was going to go to law school and that it was a nice ramp for that
because it was a lot of writing; a lot of research; a lot of reading;
lots of taking a dense, complicated set of materials and condensing it
down into something small, which I thought would translate very well into law.
I had had an internship my sophomore year where I worked at TechCrunch,
which is a tech blog in San Francisco.
It was run out of a guy's house by the name of Mark Arrington,
and he eventually sold it to the Huffington Post.
And it was a true kind of Silicon Valley startup experience.
You know, I worked on html for the basis of the site on a couch in Silicon Valley, you know,
in between football practices and weightlifting in the summer.
And it was a really cool experience.
And, you know, I left that to go into, you know, be a paralegal at a law firm a couple years.
And it took me doing that to realize, OK, this isn't exactly what I want to do.
So I went back to my roots, went back to revisit the technology world,
went actually to University of Virginia.
They have a one-year Masters program.
Because I figured I had spent all this time at Stanford and among all these startups and,
you know, been down the hall from the founder of Snapchat,
and not really done anything about it [laughing].
So I needed to catch up.
So I went and studied marketing and business at UVA and then moved
out to the valley and started work there.