Ep 050, End Zone Militiaman
Underserved
Andrew Gelina
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Episode 050 of Underserved features Gene Grella, a renaissance IT executive who also teaches, flies RC planes/drones, and fires a musket after every Patriots home game touchdown. We discuss the merits of a big, boring, process-driven company for your first job out of college. We also talk about CEOs who put their personality stamp on their companies, FPV flight, and how the best professors correlate the classroom lessons to the real world.
- Wang 2200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_2200
- PDP 11 - https://www.olddec.nl/Thanks-41-Years/PDP11.htm
- Electric Boat: https://westfaironline.com/102139/electric-boat-commits-to-investing-over-800m-in-state/
- Avery Dennison: https://timkellygroup.com/projects/finesse-longford/
- Tom Siebel: https://philanthropicpeople.com/profiles/thomas-m-siebel/
- Oracle HQ in Redwood City: https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-employees-enjoy-pool-yacht-2015-1#since-1989-oracles-headquarters-has-dominated-the-town-of-redwood-city-california-about-25-miles-south-of-san-francisco-1
- Tinyhawk Drone: https://www.gearbest.com/brushless-fpv-racer/pp_009296354194.html
- Rick Reilly joins the End Zone Militia: https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2015/11/rick-reilly-joins-the-patriots-end-zone-militia/
- Pictures of Gene in action, and a real, live ABEND: https://photos.app.goo.gl/RbjF3rgrZGhjCT3H9
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Undersur, the podcast for the rest of the |
| 0:11.2 | tech industry. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm your host Andrew Jalina. |
| 0:14.7 | With me in studio today is Jean Grella, vice president of IT at Ethos Veterinary Health. |
| 0:20.8 | Jean, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.4 | Hi Andrew, thank you for having me. |
| 0:23.8 | This is great. |
| 0:24.8 | Thank you for coming down, fellow Tesla owner. |
| 0:28.4 | I made it here safely. |
| 0:30.9 | So way back in the day, what got you interested in technology early on? |
| 0:35.6 | It was in high school and I started high school in 1978 and we're all kind of thinking about |
| 0:41.0 | where we're going to go. |
| 0:42.0 | What are we going to do with the rest of our lives? |
| 0:43.5 | I was in the math department because this is 1978 and we didn't have a computer lab. |
| 0:47.4 | They had three computers up there. |
| 0:48.6 | They had these three Wayne computers. |
| 0:50.6 | Two of them had four K of RAM. |
| 0:52.3 | One of them had eight K of RAM. |
| 0:53.5 | That was the one that everyone wanted to be on. |
| 0:56.3 | I noticed these guys playing Battlestar Galactica game and I was wondering how the heck they |
| 1:01.7 | were doing that. |
| 1:02.7 | I went to see them. |
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