Welcome, everyone, to episode number 1111, 111 of Underserved.

Joining me today is Drew Schillinger, a tech executive from Atlanta.

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 Jolina.

Drew, thank you so much for joining us today on Underserved.

Thank you for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

So how did you first become interested in technology?

I was fascinated by this Atari that we had for maybe all of two weeks. I was an English major, and I fell into this line of work. I took a job writing and I fell in love with

the industry. So I'm a self-taught engineer. And as I moved into it later on, my grandfather,

Jack Schillinger, was my best friend as well as a mentor. Jumping ahead in my story when I came home with

the promotion of lead engineer at Adult Swim, I called him up and said, you're not the only

engineer in the family anymore. So my grandfather was a mechanical engineer and he taught himself

Fortran in the late 60s, early 70s, as a way

to run numbers on a new way of pre-stressing concrete. Then he started teaching himself basic

in the early 80s. He passed away about eight years ago at the age of 96, but he had survived four heart attacks during,

I think it was the second or third heart attack. He was in the hospital in the mid-80s,

and he bought this Atari and built a basic program to teach me programming. I never knew about

this. And when I told him that, he said, yeah, you never knew about

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