Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serve, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew

Jollina. With me in studio today is Jeremy Halprin,

CEO of Rare Breed Veterinary Partners. Jeremy,

welcome to the show. Thank you Andrew Andrew. Thank you for the invite.

Glad to be here.

Thank you for making the trip down from Maine.

It's probably a good idea we did this now and not in the winter.

Yeah, we don't want to be driving in the winter in New England if we don't have to.

Absolutely.

So tell us about what got you interested in technology interested in the industry way

back when.

You know, it was one of those kids in the 80s that took everything apart and put everything back together.

Loved mechanics.

Wasn't necessarily the most well-behaved child in school, so I didn't always get to use the computer at recess but yeah

just loved video games I remember when Nintendo came out in Atari and Odyssey and

all those things and really

going to get it really captivated me at a young age. But then I think it was your daughter being born where you said,

you know what, I think I'm really going to get into this industry.

Yeah, I moved out on my own at an early age,

right around 15 years old, and wasn't sure exactly what I was going to do with my life, decided to go to school, and that turned into an opportunity to be in a band.

So, took a right turn in college, and after years decided to try to make a band come true and moved to Portland, ended up bartending and banging around Portland one barter under the year while I was doing that, had a little good times, but then, yeah, to your point Andrew,

my daughter was born and I knew it was time to make a change.

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