>> So I went to Penn State, spent four years at state college and when I was coming
out as a Business Administration major, actually great story.
I have for a mentor in my life a guy named Bob Camp.
He's one of the original founders of Pier 1 Imports and as a kid always into retail.
He became a mentor to me and when I was graduating I said I might as well reach out
and see what he suggests I get into.
While I was at Penn State in my junior year I founded a marketing company.
I'm an entrepreneurial spirit and I started a marketing company and I had ten employees
that we basically went out to the Incubator which is kind of out by Penn Stater
and we worked with various companies that were in that incubation program
to help them with PR and marketing.
So we would go out there and kind of give them services at half price
but we also got opportunities to get people experienced that they could use
in the real world and put it on a resume and could say I've actually written a request
for lease and I've done marketing materials and kind of an in-school internship.
So during fall and spring semester used an opportunity to get an internship also help
out incubator concepts that were really kind of trying to grow and launch.