Welcome everyone to a special bonus episode of Underserved.

I've known Ben Hodson for over 20 years and when he came in to record we went over most of those

years and back a few more. The first part of our conversation is in our regular episode entitled

Ancient History. This bonus episode is called Modern History and picks up when Ben and I met

one another at Monster.com. Let's continue the conversation. Welcome to this week's edition of

Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. Where we focus on stories of tech

industry leaders, their insights and their lessons learned. And now your host Andrew Gelina.

So once again, who you know in your network helps out a lot as your friend and colleague Brian

Pierce helps get you into Monster. So Brian had ended up at Monster and he you know I was

reaching out going like yeah this is not working out here. He's like you gotta come down here dude.

This place is awesome. We have this thing called the Den and there's free snacks and there's

food and there's sodas. And I was like oh god another dot bomb like essential like what's going to

happen here. So I went down to Monster and checked it out again. It was going to be a big commute.

Like the nice thing about that the other place was it was in New Hampshire or is living. So it was

an easy commute. Now got to go down to Maynard and I was like all right I'll come down and check

it out. So I drove down and what was really funny was monsters in the old deck clock tower

place which is this huge old mill building right. And I have no idea where to go. Brian and

said oh we're in this building for or something like that. And I was like okay so I just kind of

go in there and looking around and I'm like all right and like I followed somebody through the

secure door. Not even thinking about it just walked in behind somebody went up to the floor.

I thought he was on and I'm literally just walking around the cube farm. I finally like ran into

this you will know her Luba and I'm like hey can you tell me who would I talk to about an

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