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Hello, I am Andrew Maloney.

I am the CEO and co-founder of Query AI. I grew up in a very blue-collar family, so it was a lot of trade craft.

My grandparents, my mom's side were farmers.

My father was in air conditioning.

Grandfather was an electrician.

I enjoyed a lot of those things, tinkering and such growing up,

but I was quick to learn that those were hard professions. I was a mechanic in high school for a while

and realized that I didn't want to kind of follow in the footsteps of my father necessarily

and worked multiple jobs and took an interest early on in computers. But I always liked the military as well and had aspirations to go and serve the country.

So that's the direction I ended up taking, which also led me into a path where I could go into computers.

I enlisted at 17. I actually had to get a parental waiver. I was so young to go in and I joined the Air Force.

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