Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

And little did I know that, you know, I'd have the opportunity to learn to write software, which never crossed my mind until maybe late in my senior year.

So I was blessed to have the opportunity to get hired at EDS, uh, Ross Perot's old company, uh, Electronic Data Systems, and they put me through a very rigorous software engineering development program that it was a either you pass or you got fired, so nothing like a little stress to motivate you.

Oh, geez.

Um, but I survived, and there are lots of people still out in the marketplace that came out of that program, so it's a, it's a real badge of honor.

He is basically the GOAT investment banker.

He came up from nothing as an Italian kid on Long Island, talks his way onto Wall Street, and basically, while he's still a kid, he ends up winning the sole IPO manager position for Ross Perot's company, EDS.

Uh, people today remember Ross Perot as like, oh, yeah, that guy who ran for president in the '90s, but he was kinda like Larry Ellison of his time.

EDS was this giant company.

Yeah, and I was trying to th- think about the best way to frame EDS.

Maybe like a Palantir.

They were very involved in government contracts.

I actually have to start, like, a-

Yeah.

I mean, I remember in Nutley, we had Electronic Data Systems founded their, they had their big factory and, and we, uh, and offices there.

And they gave the town a swimming pool, so we would swim there, but we always wondered what was going on inside Electronic, EDS, you know, the Perot family.

We had so much stuff going on like that.

And in Irving, Texas, I got a job with a big company.

At that time, it was called EDS, Electronic Data Systems.

It's a company that Ross Perot started.

And it's now part of Hewlett-Packard.

Can't say much more about that.

And then I moved to an American corporation called EDS, Electronic Data Systems, when it was still run by Ross Perot.

These days, it got sold several times, and it's now owned by HP.

So I did that for a bit, and that really was the real impetus for me to get into computing.