Gigya

It was in a space that ultimately was in the passwordless space, because they were early to passwordless and passkeys.

There's former folks from Gigia, which was in the consent management space that SAP acquired.

And we thought, hey, this is a great idea.

It doesn't really line up with SAP internally in terms of what we can do to help people.

So, yeah, I had to stay humble, stay student always, and continue to learn so I can help empower my team for this next stage of kind of changes with product development.

And what's interesting is that for your first experiences at Gigia, you acquired, and then after that you went into some venture capital, but also Life360 as well.

I'm just kind of curious because, you know, it seems like there you are, continue building out your skillset, and then you're also starting to dabble in investing as well.

I'm just kind of curious how that was coming out

So we had like some of the best VCs around the table, an amazing board of directors that helped us.

And I kind of grew with the company.

And as I grew, I started spending more and more time in Silicon Valley and actually engaging because Gigia was a social media API aggregation layer.

So it was actually a developer tool, developer API tool SaaS company that helped integrate with Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn and all the early kind of, and this is 2008 when Facebook was just taking off, right? So I started coming over the Silicon Valley because that was where our main office was and started spending time.