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I grew up outside of Washington, D.C. and visited the Bay Area often as a kid to see extended family. I didn’t know what it meant to “be in tech,” however I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a part of it. Growing up, I was the kid taking apart his family’s old VCR (I told them I was “fixing” it). In high school, I taught myself how to code in assembly and decided I wanted to be an engineer. Yes, I went to about the nerdiest high school you can think of – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology. I played with EPROMs and wore static wrist straps around campus — isn’t that what all 16-year-old kids do in high school? My love of hardware extended to the University of Michigan where I majored in Electrical Engineering. I was surprised to learn that “engineering” actually meant multiple problem sets every week that took 30+ hours to complete. This was enough to convince me to graduate early and start my career as a hardware engineer at a “hot” semiconductor startup back

I grew up outside of Washington, D.C. and visited the Bay Area often as a kid to see extended family. I didn’t know what it meant to “be in tech,” however I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a part of it. Growing up, I was the kid taking apart his family’s old VCR (I told them I was “fixing” it). In high school, I taught myself how to code in assembly and decided I wanted to be an engineer. Yes, I went to about the nerdiest high school you can think of – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology. I played with EPROMs and wore static wrist straps around campus — isn’t that w