Computer Sciences Corporation

What's your corporate? Oh, so I started off in

an organization called Computer Sciences Corporation, CSC.

CSC, yeah.

I then went to an organization called Christie's, the International Auctioneers.

That was really bad.

Fast-forward to 12 years ago, Michael, and after three stints in Fortune 500, where I worked for a, a big bank, a computer sciences corporation, Vistaprint, and, uh, was actually terminated at the bank.

I was in competition with another person for one role.

There were two hires made for it.

Uh, great to hear.

Now, let's sort of go, like why should a bookkeeper...

And our listener, we have all sort of levels, right? It's somebody thinking, and it's-- I love that you said that, right? You're, you're leaving the bank, and you're like, "You know what? I'm done working for this big, big company.

I'm gonna go do something different in my life." And, and often that's a pa- that's one of the pathways how bookkeeping firms become bookkeeping firms is, uh, uh, someone's working, and they decide to take that leap and be their, be their own boss and, and go out and ma- and build a business.

So we were figuring it out as we went.

I remember I went to Computer Sciences Corporation in 2000, and they said, "We're gonna build a web hosting offer internet data center.

We have data centers.

We wanna host websites for our clients." They were a large internationally based managed service provider, a sort of enterprise managed service provider.

Mm.

And, uh, when I, when I finished school, I started working at Computer Sciences Corporation, it was called back then.

Mm.

And they were doing a, um, a project for the Navy, and so I got my top secret clearance when I was 18 years old.

We had, uh...

Previously, the founders, the four of us, had worked at Computer Sciences Corporation together in an early web hosting edition, uh, before AWS existed in 2000 through about 2014, and we had built a cybersecurity program there that governed employees with password policies and acceptable use policies and everything else.

And it worked really well, and auditors loved it.

When we came in, we got high cr- high praise from SOC 2 auditors, from ISO auditors, from everybody, because we had it nailed down, this policy delivery and legally binding signatures, and everybody's like, "Oh, this is-- makes so much sense." But it didn't really solve pain points in the, in the industry of SMBs, mid-markets, right? This was an enterprise solution that really solved that problem.

And that was with a company called Advanced Marine that did ship design.

That company eventually got bought by Computer Sciences Corporation.

You know, as I... transformed in the organization, get more degrees.

I looked more at the business side.