I know we talked a little bit about it up front, but can you take me kind of back maybe... where you grew up and leading up to getting into entrepreneurship and how that idea of Shell's kind of sort of formulated and came about.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.

To be honest with you, I always kind of had a passion for, you know, wanting to start a business.

I had a lawn mowing business in my neighborhood, was doing that, you know, pretty much all throughout middle school and high school and always like talk to my dad about random ideas I had to start businesses.

um but you know after that i went to south carolina ended up majoring and they actually have an entrepreneurship major at south carolina so they have some really cool entrepreneurship classes that i really enjoyed at south carolina so i graduated with double major in business management and finance from South Carolina.

was this about when you were just starting?

Um, I know we talked a little bit about it up front, but can you take me kind of back maybe where you grew up and leading up to getting into entrepreneurship and how that idea of Shell's kind of sort of formulated and, uh, came about?

Absolutely, yeah.

So I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Um, to be honest with you, I always kind of had a passion for, you know, wanting to start a business.

Um, had a lawn mowing business in my neighborhood.

Um, was doing that, you know, pretty much all throughout middle school and high school, and always, like, talked to my dad about random ideas I had to start businesses.

Um, but you know, after that, I went to South Carolina, ended up majoring in...

What, what year was this about when you were just starting?