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My name is Greg Bell, and I'm the co-founder and chief strategy officer for CoreLite, an open-source cybersecurity company. Well, I was lucky to belong to that generation of kids who grew up programming computers.

And so early on, I think by the time I was eight or nine, I was spending possibly an unhealthy amount of time programming.

But now at this much later stage in my life, in some ways

I'm returning to those things that brought me a lot of joy when I was a kid.

My career is pretty much all twists and turns, which I really like. Some people like consistency

and predictability, but for me, that actually

kind of makes me unhappy, and I like change and learning curves. And so I did a lot of different

things before I settled into a technical career. I worked in human rights. I worked in refugee resettlements.

I worked for Amnesty International. I had a little Hollywood detour.

I got a PhD at UC Berkeley

where I wrote on the history of conspiracy belief.

And then ultimately, back when sort of at a point in my life

when my kids were in school

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