Eagle (Eagle, CO)

Howdy from Eagle, CO >>Growing up I was a juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. >>I started framing houses in the late 70’s. I was great at it. But it was hard work and my back gave out. >>I bounced around at odd jobs and sold drugs. I couldn't make any money selling drugs because I smoked, swallowed, snorted, shot up, or gave away all the profits. >>I dated a girl who convinced me to be a waiter. I had no experience and wasn't gonna start at Denny's. So I practiced waiting tables in her living room. Got my first job waiting tables circa 1984 by lying on the application. I was a great waiter, customers said the best they'd seen. Still have nightmares of forgetting a customers' order. >>Circa '87 while working as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant I discovered the Minitel while reading microfiche at the Denver Public Library. Then I read United States V. AT&T, what that meant for me. I saw today's Internet. It was love at first sight. >>BTW. For all those who think the Internet sprung from some version of Libertarian thinking: think ?again. Today's Internet was born from the work done by two Liberal Democrats - President Jimmy Carter and Judge Harold Greene. >>My three biggest assets were desire, primo marijuana, and naivete. >>So I started a restaurant information line, The Dine Line. Because I believed that touch-tone telephone information would be the beginning of what is now the Internet. I was right. >>In 1991 I co-founded a service bureau (hosting service) that would host telephone information services. I did all the marketing and programming. My company hosted pay-per call apps of all kinds - sex, dating, stock tips, and psychic lines. I programmed what was at the time, the biggest sex line system known. >>Pay-per call apps were the proving ground for today’s Internet. >>While at my first company I designed an app that was a must-have, true killer app. Throughout the 90’s l designed other, must-have apps. Apps that changed things. >>In 2002 I founded my 2nd company. I invented more, must-have apps that changed things. >>Circa 2005 when I heard about MySpace I couldn’t believe that people would fall for it. So we coded up what was the first privacy network. But nobody cared. People were into sharing everything. I told people then, what was going to happen. That one day our elections would be decided because no one would know what to believe. They said I was crazy. >>In 2013 the industry that we were selling to started to shrink. I didn’t see it coming. By 2016 our app was no longer popular. I let my guys go, thought I was gonna have to get a job. That would have been a problem, I’m unemployable. >>One thing I’ve learned in all my years is that if you just hang around long enough, create luck, then be in position for luck to happen, it will. >>In 2017 new customers started to find us. We did what they told us to, started making our app for them. Today we’re really close to releasing another, must-have app. >>When the pandemic hit I started learning about crypto on 2.22.20. Now I spend a lot of time each day on it. It’s definitely the future, particularly DeFi. It’s a helluva story, one of the great inventions of all-time. >>I started in computers in the late 80’s with barely a 9th grade education. What a trip. So many stories, experiences. >>What else? >>I’m a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Been clean one day at a time since 4.16.07. Ski bum. Music. Deadhead. Live in color. >>I guess we’re rich. But that doesn’t make us happy. Being rich isn’t important. >>What’s important is 25+ years with my wife Renee. Our son. Our health. Familia and friends. Helping others. The trip. New puppy. >>We’d walk away with nothing - but still have everything. >>Knowing this is happiness. >>peace and love, pk