We always like to start out with what I call the data center journey, which is asking our guests to share a little bit about their background, how you found this industry, and Sort of your journey through the data center business.

So I think like many people, I didn't set out in my educational journey to actually get into data centers.

I think the industry kind of found me.

I was studying materials engineering, material science in college and went to work in the semiconductor industry when I graduated.

I had done some internships with the largest equipment manufacturer, a company named Applied Materials, and they sold all the equipment to, you know, like Intel, Samsung, Micron, all of the big semiconductor companies.

And I had been studying process engineering, so developing processes, mostly for what they call reactive ion etch processes, to etch the metal lines, which were just the wires in a semiconductor circuit.

And so I went to work when I graduated for one of their customers, got a couple of years of in-fab experience, and then went back to applied materials.

And so I'm curious what that experience was like for you to come into that kind of environment And how you and your team sort of approached tackling the kind of challenges of scale in a business that was growing probably at a pace that, you know, at least in the history, the Internet was unique.