So I'm from Brooklyn, New York. Study. Originally, I went to college at Washington University in ST Louis, and I was initially going to go on was a math major, but they have, uh at the time they had a policy where if you got into multiple schools, they just put you in the smaller one. So kind of but chance I ended up in computer science, um, and ended up really liking the intercourse, is decided to stick with it. And so I studied computer signs along the way, got a minor in Mac and a minor in economics on. Then, after college, I wanted to work at something at the intersection of business and technology. And so I found product management as a kind of mint ground between those two disciplines, and this led me the work at Capital One. They have a product management rotational program. Um, and so I did that for about a year and a half, got toe work as a product manager in two different roles on decided I wanted to try working both in a new space and something more entrepreneurial, So I left Capital one. I started a technology consulting business in the Blockchain space. I taught myself to do a new programming language as specifically for Blockchain applications. Onda About 2.5 years on Ben. More recently, I started a new role at Discover the financial services Technology Company s. So I'm part of an internal digital transformation initiative to essentially come up with a new model for how they build things on to create a sustainable model toe build and deploy solutions. On a fraction of the time on DSO, I'm working as a kind of product manager. Um so I I helped from the start of Indian project to defining the business objectives and then help transition from that point to developing technical solutions, manage the development of the technical solutions, the route and then just still take the handoff of the solution to someone back on the original team that we built it for. After that, I can kind of move onto the next project. And I just started that last week, though, so it's all very dear to me

left a chain eyes the company I founded on the technology consulting company. And so I didn't really know what it would be like when I got into it at running your own business means that you're going to be handling every facet of that business that would normally be parsed out into different departments in a big organization. And so that meant, you know, I handled, um, legal business, developed man, accounting on obviously they primary execution of, like, the firm services. So for us, that was technology consulting and development. Um, the things that took the most time were business development and then actually execution on projects on. And the thing that is really challenging about running a small consulting business or a solo consulting business is the balance between bringing in new clients and executing on current clients on. So you get, you know, I would get a a new client who takes all my time, and I want to I want to deliver on what they want quickly so that I make a good impression and can get positive word of mouth. But then that means that I have to cut back on my time spent getting next client at which you create a situation where one client finishes and you don't have work lined up. So balancing that is a big challenge. And I think it's the universal challenge among small consulting operations. Um, I was a weekly work hours fluctuated. The nice thing about working for yourself is you can kind of do what you want to, So there would be weeks where I would work a time. Andi, if I felt a little burned out, I could come back for a weekend on, and that's okay. Um, I would say work travel. I would travel just depending on conferences. I had a few clients who wanted me to travel, but it wasn't a major commitment, I mean, and I personally do not work from home ever. And because on especially projects where I was so low, I found that it was difficult to stay productive at home without having team members to. I was accountable to, and I just rented out of color in space

I'm gonna answer this. I'm not with exactly the wrong that's listed here, which is the product manager and developer and more Ah, being an entrepreneur on and running your own business. And a lot of the challenges revolve around the kind of overall responsibility, laughter, safety that, um and it's a all the things that make being an entrepreneur interesting as well. Um, but the it took a long time to get used to the stress of I'm not having a safety net and with regards to the business and being solely responsible for pushing it forward on and trying to manage, um, all of the previous tasks I mentioned as well as going out the strategic direction on day, trying to figure out how it could grow, what you have to do to make it grow and what you realistically at a time for at you know, startups or small companies have limited resource is compared to bigger competitors. And so they have to be very, um, very cognizant of how they're spending. The resource is on how they spend your time because everything come every prioritization comes with the trade off. Um and so I would say dealing with I was managing that is is a big is a big challenge