>> I came to the University of Denver,
originally on a music scholarship, got a degree in chemistry.
While I was here, the Music Department let me perform,
and the Chemistry Department let me, you know, do chemistry.
Most of the way through that degree, I decided, you know, I didn't really want to be a chemist,
and medical school wasn't quite what I was thinking it was going to be,
and so I did a program here called a Three-Two Program.
I think they still have it, and so I switched over to the business school and ended
up getting a Master's in Business Administration in Finance, so music, to chemistry, to finance,
to an on-campus interview with a very large consulting firm,
and they hired me because they said, you had, you know, some sort of technology and business,
and they wanted to kind of teach me the computer world, so I went to work for, you know,
one of those, intergalactic-sized, you know, consulting firms and stayed there
for a long time trying to learn the trade,
and then in '91 decided my entrepreneurial side was strong enough that I could go jump out
and do that, so I started a company in '91, sold.
The 90s was a great time to sell firms.
So, sold those, worked for the new guys for a while,
then decided to start a new one in 2001, and that's Statera.