Welcome everybody to episode number 94 of Under Serve. Today we are featuring Steve Plank,

CTO of Taco Bell, 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.

Steve, thank you so much for joining us today on Under Serve.

Hey Andrew, I appreciate you having me on.

Had an opportunity to listen to quite a few of your podcasts, so excited to get an opportunity to tell my story.

Excellent, not just a guest, also a fan.

So way back in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, what was it like growing up there?

Much technology going on or anything like that?

Yeah, I was born in Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia, so I consider myself a Philly guy.

Very blue collar area, I work construction from a young age with my dad.

I think he took me to work to get me out of my mom's hair, then over the years, certainly did a lot more.

Definitely not a lot of technology.

I think probably my exposure was playing a whole lot of video games as a kid.

You know, I think it started with Atari 2600 and worked my way through.

So yeah, not a very technology oriented start to my life.

But at the tail end of high school, you're figuring, all right, I need a practical major.

So what did that lead you to?

Practical would probably be the right word.

You know, I knew that I wanted to only go to school for four years, at least at that time,

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