A founder worked on ATM processors at NCR, then at financial firms and wireless companies before launching a Netflix-style platform for physician education during the dot-com boom. The company was acquired by a NASDAQ firm instead of going public.
We all started our companies working for somebody else. I started mine working in as, um, for NCR and their ATM processors, and then eventually went to work for various financial institutions and then wireless companies, and then launched my, my own company having observed other people doing that. Um, my first company I started in the crazy dot-com era, um, around the same time as some other that you may have heard of— Amazon, Google— um, with the goal of, you know, had a small-cap level taking, you know, a company public. But it— we were a, um, a platform that was called like a Netflix for helping, um, uh, continuing ed for physicians and certified professionals. And instead of going public, we were sold to a— we sold to a publicly traded NASDAQ company.
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