Welcome, everyone, to episode number 78 of Under-Served.

With me today is Adam Firestone, Chief Engineering Officer at Sylogic.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Serve,

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.

Thank you, Adam, for joining us today on Under-Served.

Hi, Andrew. It is wonderful to be here.

I am very grateful for having the opportunity and thank you.

You're very welcome.

So once upon a time, you thought the greatest thing was a portable tape recorder.

Why? How does that get you interested in tech?

So I grew up in Brooklyn about a billion years ago.

And neighborhood I grew up in was very working class and middle class.

And folks there, they didn't throw things away.

They fixed everything.

And the other thing they did was if they could visualize an idea about how to make their lives better,

they built it themselves.

And so today, for example, we take things like programmable thermostats for granted.

And so you would see guys sit there and they'd hang out with each other

and they would have a bunch of components on the kitchen table.

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