All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT-Ners.

Today, we have the very good-looking Stan Meshkov on the show.

Of course, you'll never know how good looking

he is unless you meet him in person because this show is pretty much always audio. Welcome to

the show, Stan. Yeah, hi everyone. And so I'm excited to have you on the show for numerous reasons.

One, you're a hard worker and no one seems to want to work in America right now.

It's very hard for me to even go to the gas station after 8 o'clock at night.

I went to what we call Cumberland Farms over here, and there was a sign on the door closing due to staffing shortage at 8 o'clock.

So for whatever reason, no one wants to work over here.

And you know, you're a hard worker and you seem to find a lot of really, really good hard workers.

But we're going to talk about software development. Before we

get into that, why don't you give me just a brief background of kind of how you grew up in

technology. I'd love to hear what your first computer was or what your first coding exercise was

and why you decided to do that.

And then just give me kind of how you grew to where you are now,

because it's a pretty interesting story.

Yeah.

Thank you very much that you invited me here today.

I got my first computer when I was like 12 years old. it was Pentium 1 and the main thing that

here was a game, Heroes 3.

I know if you have ever played in Hero 3, it was the best game that I ever played.

Okay, look, I had a, I had a 386 was my, well, a 386 was my first PC, so to speak.

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