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from online dangers.

You are a 30-year cybersecurity expert.

And so what's interesting to me, Ben, is, has this been going on for 30 years?

No.

It's the internet that really, it, it, what will, probably what we'll talk about a lot today and,

and a lot of the, you know, tied into like thousand hours outside, I think correlates back to

when the internet started to be in kids' pockets, which was heavily started in like 2012.

Okay. So the internet's in kids' pockets in 2012.

But prior to that, you've got 30 years of experience working with technology.

That's right. I started in 95 when I was 14 years old.

All right, give us all the back story.

Oh gosh, I'll give you the short version because there's a lot there and I love nerd stuff.

And so, so yeah, so I, so currently I do, I'm the family IT guy.

I help parents and families stay safe on the internet.

I help parents keep their kids safe on the internet.

Going back to 95, when I was 14, I started working at a computer

store and I was technically a salesperson, but I worked there because I liked computers,

and I was the worst salesperson in the whole company. We had a chain of stores and I was the

worst person in the salesperson in the whole company.

Because I just wanted to help people build their computers and I never actually upsold them

on anything.

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