My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
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“We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.”
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