Welcome to season five of Under Served. This is episode 51. We have as our guest today Bob Hammond, CTO of choreographed. Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Under Served, 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 Jalina.

Bob, thank you so much for joining us this week and welcome to the show.

Thank you much. My pleasure. Good to see you.

So way back in the day in like high school years, I know you lived in the Boston area, but with your dad being a sales executive,

did you really live in 11 different places and attend four different high schools?

I did indeed. My father worked for Union Carbide back in the day.

So as he got promoted up through the ranks, he got transferred to different regions in the country.

Pretty much mid US to the east coast, but yeah, 11 different places, four different high schools.

Actually, I was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but never lived there.

Directed out of that went down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

So I was a cage and boy for six years or so. And then funny enough, moved from Baton Rouge to Chicago.

So almost overnight, I had to lose my accent and become a Chicago guy from there.

But yeah, so four different high schools, that was probably the toughest part to be honest with you.

So the way I actually dealt with is I became a sports guy, I became a jock, right?

So being able to integrate myself into friends of the school and stuff through sports.

So played football, baseball, hockey, that sort of stuff.

Never really a good basketball player ever, probably too short at the end of the day.

But yeah, you sports to kind of integrate myself in.

And now it's kind of interesting because I ended up moving after I was married out of school and stuff moved up to New Hampshire.

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