“One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.”
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.