Welcome, everyone, to episode 87 of Underserved. Joining us today from the

Lone Star State is Joe Forester, SVP of Engineering and Product at Chusel. Let's

get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, 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.

Joe, thank you very much for joining us today on Underserved. Thank you for

having me, Andrew. Looking forward to speaking with you today. So when you were

young and your teens, you were interested in audio video, how did that kind of

get you interested in technology? Really just getting into you understanding how

all that worked. I was a big fan of pretty much wiring everything in the

house up in the most complicated way I could. So I was pretty much the only one

that really knew how to operate anything. You know, drove everybody nuts. But I

learned a lot from your wiring things up to just getting you interested in

how all that was put together and how it was brought to life. Did you read

the manuals or just tear everything apart? I just turned apart and start from

there. Now when you were in high school, you started kind of learning more the

hardware side of the industry. Yeah, so back in high school, I was really

getting into just a hardware side of it, spending a lot of time at the

nascent of the internet coming out, getting into really kind of building your own

PC, buying things from parts versus going to circuit city, you know, purchasing

hardware, things like that. It was really exciting being able to, you know, find

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