The day after our graduation I "fled" to Houston (where my family had moved) on my way to Pasadena 3 months later (Caltech BS and MS)......that pretty quickly made me a Californian at heart. Two more years at Harvard to get an MBA, and then my first job in Newport Beach. Later to the Bay Area to run my first VC-backed company in the telecom equipment space (where I spent my career). Got acquired 2 companies later by a NJ company that got us to NYC/Manhattan and then Hong Kong........great lives both. But that company lost its technology way, and we ended up in Minneapolis.....some of what I "owned" was in Dallas, and that ultimately brought us there for 12 years leading up to/through the internet hey days. The chance to run another company brought us back to Newport Beach.......a later sale freed us up to move up to the "forever place" we had built in Foresthill (north of Sacramento). I then fell into what I do now.......coach Owner/CEO's and run CEO peer groups under the auspices of Vistage International. 2 long term marriages, 6 total kids mostly in their 40's, 9 grandkids. My "helper boy" work takes up about 2/3's of my life, and we travel the rest since golf is such a horrible game. See you in October.