Hello and welcome to this week's edition of underserved the

podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew

Jelina and today we are lucky to have Mike Bro with us longtime friend, longtime

programmer and software consultant and the original founder of Searing.

How you doing today, Mike?

Great, how are you?

All right.

Thank you for coming in.

Thanks for having me.

One question I often ask up front

is just everyone's origin story.

So how did you become Spider-Man?

I'm one of the lucky ones where a lot of people grow up wondering what they want to do with their lives. I never had that problem.

My dad was a software engineer. He graduated from college in 56, this is before computer science, and they have these

mainframes and they're trying to think of who would be good at programming these things and

they decided math majors. And so he got a job after he

graduated and stayed there for 27 years he worked on a phone system for the army

he did NSA stuff and things like that and so I always wanted to be like my. I was really lucky in the sense that we had a dump terminal in

1976 so this is like war games it's before VT 100 like in your house., he would bring it home on weekends. Oh. Yeah. And so this is before. It's not a VT 100. It didn't even have a screen. It was a printer with a keyboard attached to it. And the paper that it used was like bathroom it looked like paper

towels from like an elementary school it was very specific.

Not like dot matrix paper with a little punchy holes at the edge?

Nope. Nope.

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