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Let's just start, just give everyone your background a little bit, and then we'll kind of get into how you got into cratum and all that.

Yeah, so background, I'm an engineer by training, and so I always knew I wanted to be an engineer.

I just kind of had this creative mindset combined with I loved math science and building creating you know taking

apart things and I was a little kind of trying to build them make things so I

always wanted to go in that direction and always kind of knew I wanted to go into

entrepreneurship at some point my dad was an entrepreneur he himself was engineer

had his own business that I kind of was exposed to when I was pretty young and kind of worked there, got a lot of good experience.

Oh, doing what? What was it?

It was like a kind of like an engineering job shop and like small printed circuit board assembly.

So we used to kind of make little circuit boards. So I'd like stuff those and put them

through like a wave solder machine to solder them, cut them apart. We made some interesting

power supplies for like the Fermilab accelerator. So I grew up in Chicago suburbs. And Fermilab

was, you know, a couple cities nearby. So we used to do some parts for them.

My mom was also, she's a pharmacist or now retired pharmacist.

And that was kind of part of the upbringing that I was kind of just exposed to a lot of the pharmaconetics, kind of supplements, drugs, how they work, what some of the problems were because my mom was

she was everything from working at like a research university to working at a hospital and then went into

retail pharmacy so she kind of got to see a whole range of that industry in itself and I kind of just

absorbed some of the information being around it gotcha and then then how to dip path, you know, from there taking you to being involved in what

you do now? Yeah. So, like I said, I wanted to be an entrepreneur. So after college, I moved out to

San Diego for my first job with Hewlett-Packard I did a lot and I worked for them for 10 years in

research and design, so which I got to do a lot of amazing development, like analytical tooling

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