As the son of two park rangers, Andy built a lot of forts as a kid. After a liberal arts undergrad, he moved to the Bay Area, earned an MBA, and worked in tech for five years, including a stint at software giant Autodesk. A late-twenties-life-crisis drove some questionable
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