How I Learned About the T.L. Fellowship

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In high school you figured out how to make apps and you started making one every couple of weeks if my math is correct and you built 30 in two years that's about one every two or three weeks. You joined this the tech scene I too in the 80s and 90s there was a 2600 magazine used to get together at the what was it the city court building by the bank of phones and anybody could go. There were all these dial up bulletin board services hangouts where people would go and talk about running bulletin board systems before the internet. And then you start doing some other companies they put you through this whole process back in the day for the T.L.Fellowship.

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