>> So, I came.
I immigrated to U.S. to Connecticut.
Connecticut became my second home when I was 17.
From Iran, came here.
My aunt lived here.
And I kind of put college on the back burner.
I was doing a few other things in construction business.
I have my own construction business at age of 18 making money so life is good.
And then after a couple years, I realize I want to go get my degree.
And I took courses at UConn.
I said maybe I do business, medical.
And that's when I took programming class.
I'm like this is fun.
This is not like work.
And I finish my degree here.
And throughout my senior year, I went and work for a large company.
I always thought I want to work for a GE or a Pitney Bowes.
And I work for Pitney Bowes.
And after I graduate, I realize, you know, I could really --
I don't want to work for a large company.
I want to work for a small company because I can learn faster and grow up faster
so I went with a startup company.
Work with a couple of startup company in my early career years.
I learned a lot right away because we were tasked with a lot of work.
I was in this program.
You know, I was managing.
I was talking to customers.
And eventually, I got into e-commerce business.
I started a consulting company.
And then I went with a startup company.
And that startup company got bought by Office Depot in 2001.
And that's where I grew up.
I worked for Office Depot for almost 10 years.
Various rank.
Running IT, e-commerce, operation.
And at the end, you know, it was really good.
I learned a lot.
A lot of exposure, working with leadership.
You almost become politician the higher up you go in the ranking.
I went back to UConn, got my MBA to help me refine my career.
And I enjoyed it.
But then I got to a point by 2010 I saw e-commerce going through another growth.
All these cool software companies building platform for small-, medium-size businesses.
And reached the point in my career I was turning 40.
You know, midlife crisis.
Decided to leave Office Depot, restart my consulting venture as a software company.
Got couple other co-founders, some seed money, and start building a software and here we are.