Hello and welcome to this week's edition of underserved the podcast for the rest of the technology industry.

I'm your host Andrew Jollina.

If you are sick of startup worship, gadget worship,

and rehash tech news, then this is the podcast for you.

Today I'm interviewing Jared Taylor, a self-taught software developer from Florida.

Jared decided to learn programming and he was off to the races.

Let's hear about how he got started and what he's into nowadays.

I had a job when I was a teenager doing video production work and it was, it was at a print

shop of all places and they had a client come in and say hey I want to make a video CD and I thought well I've got some time I can figure out how to do that how hard can it be right so I took over a back room made a big green

screen bought a bunch of equipment got the cameras got a I want to say it was a titanium

power book at the time and final cut and just kind of went to town and over a couple weeks we made the CD and the client came back and said,

you know, I really wish you could like

click around on the video and make it do things.

Which I was not, well, that's not a video CD.

So I got a copy of Macromedia Director and figured out how to make an interactive video.

Then they came back later and said, well, we want to do a website for this,

and kind of a brochure sales thing. So we did that and I just kept kind of you know

snowballing and snowballing and making bigger and bigger stuff and then one day the guy was

working for a buddy of his out in California who was doing a startup.

And they were having a hard time putting everything together and he told me about it.

And I said, well, no, you're doing it wrong.

He went over to his whiteboard and drew out how the whole thing should work.

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