-: I love building stuff from nothing.
I like taking a concept or an idea.
My first job was, I was first employee of a software
company and that's the reason I went to Western.
They were located across the street.
And I have a computer science degree,
but I wound up taking over
sales and marketing two years into it
and built that into a six million dollar product line.
And then I started a web design firm.
We sold that to a stock photo agency
and I became an entrepreneur within the company.
100 person company, I was part of a small team
that revolutionized the way stock photos are sold.
We sold that company in 2006 and then they started
a company in Oakland, California with a couple other people.
And we were trying to work on photo object recognition,
but we were too early.
So, it was my one big failure.
But I learned a lot from it.
And then, I started a nonprofit hackers space
as a way to get back and help build that community
I saw in New York and California here in Connecticut.