Welcome to the inaugural edition of underserved, the podcast for the rest of the technology industry. I'm your

host Andrew Jollina. I wanted to talk to you about my motivation for starting this

podcast. As you know, podcasts are more popular than ever. There's a ton of them, especially technology

podcasts. But of the ones I liked and listened to, it seemed like many of them really fell into two categories.

The first, I'll call startup warship worship. You know when people talk about the industry, a lot of attention is paid to product startups. They're the sexy lottery tickets that everyone likes to gossip about.

You heard the story about the founders who invented a widget program in their garage,

and they bootstrapped and scrapped their way to their first sale,

and they took on Angel and Venture Capital Investments and grew like wildfire,

they IPOed and cashed out to buy McLarens and mansions.

You know, I like that story as much as anyone, but I feel like I've heard it too many times.

I'm in the technology industry, but I really live a different life from that. I started

programming when I was 11 years old, entered the industry working for a big company, then consulting,

back to a big company, and finally owning my own consulting business.

And along the way, I met some interesting folks, made some good friends,

did some interesting things, and accumulated a bunch of stories.

So I wanted to share some of my stories from the technology industry that didn't have to do with startup worship,

as well as the stories of many of those friends that I've made along the way.

And I want to talk about the things that the rest of us think about and live through and kind of cover the other fringes of the technology scene.

So underserved is the podcast for those who are underserved by the current technology podcast content.

The other one that I see a lot of,

both YouTube videos and podcast content,

is gadget worship.

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