How did you get into tech?

Oleg from FirstHR
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Share your story about how you got into the tech industry.

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Alex Gordon-Furse
I started buying and selling on ebay when i was 13 and learned quickly about the insane scalability that tech-enabled platforms brought to even basic things like a marketplace
Ashit Vora
By coincidence. :) Honestly, I didn't do well in my 12th grade and had very few options left for graduate studies. Out of all of them, I decided to choose CS Engg. I started loving it, and here I am. Now, when I reflect, I feel like everything in life is destiny.
Marina K
Wanted to become a designer. During summer job after high-school met some kids from Computer Science department and decided to apply there as well. Then decided to pick it and got caught up 🙂
Toby Rowland
I was at Walt Disney in the 90s and was automating TV ratings data analysis using Visual Basic. More and more Internet companies approached us for Disney content, and I started getting pulled into meetings as an Internet enthusiast. We had lots of ideas for startups but eventually focused on the worst one: online vitamin retail.
Toby Rowland
@oleg_eltsov :-D we were trying to send packages to ppl thru the post, they didn't quite fit thru the letterbox, so they all came back. The world wasn't ready for non-book etail in the 90s.
Oleg from FirstHR
@toby_rowland Why the worst? This market is fine now. Although it was probably too early then.
Nick from FirstHR
Completely by accident. One of our clients asked us to help develop an app. We found a team to take on the development, and then quickly discovered that we were pretty good at putting together a team ourselves.
xucian
you're not getting into tech you're born into tech
Oleg from FirstHR
@xucian I was born when there was no tech industry :)
xucian
@oleg_eltsov haha that's fair. I mostly meant ppl are technical or not by design 😁
Back in the 90s, I worked as a customer support rep for a forex trading platform still in the MVP stage. At the end of every business day, I logged into customer databases and manually ran SQL statements to delete trades meeting a variety of criteria. Taught myself to code and built a small app that automated this process, so I could leave early. 😆
Oleg from FirstHR
@karen_isbell To the industry through a problem, classic.