Welcome, everyone, to Episode 58 of Under-Served, featuring John Arsenal, CIO of Goulston Stores.

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.

John, thank you so much for joining us today on Under-Served.

Thanks for having me, Andrew. Good to be here.

So, tell us a bit about way back in the day. I think you avoided having to be on a computer

until, like, your senior year of high school.

Yeah, exactly. So, I never had a computer growing up.

I was entirely focused on athletics as a child and had no interest in technology, really,

at all, had a whole bunch of friends that were today called gamers back in the Atari.

Nintendo days had no interest in that.

Took one computer class in high school, but my lab partner was really into the stuff.

So, he would just basically take his assignments and make copies on an old five-and-a-quarter

floppy disk, which I didn't even know that's what they were called back then.

And he would change his name to mine, and he would do all my homeworks.

I used computer class without ever touching the keyboard.

Well, that's a good friend.

So, towards the end of high school, you end up getting involved with Wellington Management.

Yeah. So, my senior year after football season ended, I decided to forego athletics and get a job after school,

primarily because at the time my dad was sick. He had cancer, and it was terminal,

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