>> So I went to Pomona College, class of 2000.
I studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics, with an emphasis on Politics.
When I started here at Pomona I thought I was going to go to law school.
And after my sophomore year I interned at RealNetworks,
which back then was very popular well-known Internet company in Seattle and I got the bug.
I had always been around software.
I grew up in Redman Washington and I had always been around software.
But I hadn't thought about it as a career.
And then when I was at RealNetworks I really started thinking much more deeply
about how I can make an impact and it felt
like the Internet was this great massive connection device
and a vehicle for humanity to communicate.
And it felt like software was a place where I could actually put that to use.
And a law degree and being a lawyer wasn't really exactly where I wanted to be.
So after my sophomore year and that internship I stopped thinking about law school
and started thinking about how I wanted to eventually go build a software company.