Quiet thoughts

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Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom.
At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt.
As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward.
College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft.
To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot.
```

American History 1988

Time entered March, and it had been two weeks since Byte Software completed its first round of funding.


In these two weeks, Byte Software signed an agreement with WSGR to become strategic partnership partners.


At the same time, it also welcomed the likes of Joe Scalcini as the Chief Executive Officer and Jimmy Trebik as the Chief Operating Officer.


Previously the Marketing Director at Hewlett-Packard, Jimmy Trebik had a broad network of connections in the computer field.


The reason Byte Software was able to recruit him was through the introduction by the independent director William Miller.


Speaking of independent director William Miller, he was also a board member mutually recognized by Dean, Morgan Tailer, and Mayfield.


Now 65 years old, William Miller was still serving as the president and CEO of SRI International.


Chapter 132 Fish Have Arrived