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Joe Gebbia

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  1. “You know, it was a riff on the tide logo Thy tie detergent, sure. And so instead of saying Thai said seniors class of 2000. Brookwood High School, and it did really well.”

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  2. “I got a bunch of inventory and I gotta go sell them. Which would come up again later in another story. But yeah, it was fun. And actually, I remember I did better than break even on those. And people were really happy to have a really memorable.”

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  3. “Let's just call it that. And I thought, you know, I bet I could do something better than that. At this point, I just got my first Mac, my first Apple computer, and I had Photoshop on it, an illustrator, and the graphics software that you needed to make visuals. And so that's actually one of my introductions to Photoshop, was I just redesigned the t-shirt. And I didn't have any money really other than the lawn money money that was coming in. I figured out how to get these t-shirts made. I went to a local printer, figured out how to do all the transfer the files to them. And suddenly I'm sitting on about 300 t-shirts. And I realized I got to go sell these things.”

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  4. “That certainly wasn't the end. I distinctly remember a whole bunch of things from part of the common stuff, right? Like I start a lawnline business in my neighborhood. So I put around flyers on people's doors in my neighborhood and offered lawnmowing and car washing. And so I'd go mow lawn for 20 bucks. That just was quick money in my pocket as a kid. Kind of getting into high school There was one moment where senior year came around and the senior year t-shirt that I did in my high school, it was pretty...”

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  5. “I do. I've got a piano at home. And it's like one of those things, you know, it's the first thing I do when I get home at the end of the day. I just go jam on the piano, I either play some of my favorite music from Thalonius Monk or Dave Brubeck, or I just make stuff up and kind of riff.”

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  6. “Is in the violin lessons. I do remember this part, I was so eager to finish the violin lessons that I could go bang on the piano that was in the same music room. And sure enough, I started taking piano lessons, and I've played ever since.”

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  7. “And so I was really grateful for that throughout my childhood. Sports, music, and art were the three things that anytime I threw my weight behind something, they were right there to support me, whether it was a practice practice or sports equipment or music lessons or art supplies, whatever the thing was, they were there to support me in it.”

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  8. “I mean, no And so I was taking violin lessons, and there's a recital that I don't remember how those, maybe. Six. And at this recital, it's in Savannah, Georgia, I'm sorry, Augusta, Georgia. Definitely out of my depths here. Like, all the kids are bigger than me. I'm not being able to keep up with everybody else's plane. And apparently I sat down on the front of the stage and just put my violin down. And my parents in the back, probably with a terrified look in their face. And after that experience, they switched their perspective and said, we're going to support whatever his intrinsic interests are.”

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  9. “And it was truly a family sport growing up. And so tennis was a huge part of my life as a kid amongst a lot of other sports. I think that's... Of things that stood out to me of childhood and things that one of the things I'm really grateful for is that Whatever my interests were, my parents would support it. And I think they learned this lesson the hard way. They got me into a violin when I was really young, when I was like about four or five years old.”

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  10. “Oh my god. Part of the family. So maybe you could talk to that. We had a tennis family, you could say. I think that's what they call that at a time where every member of the family plays tennis. We did coaching together. We played in Alta and USTA together. We did competitions together.”

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  11. “Yeah, we're doing somebody else's job. But for my dad, it was just about creating a connection with a store owner and really, I guess, going above and beyond what was required of you. And so I really took away from that observations of watching how your parents treat people. It was really nice to see, and it definitely planted a seed in me of going out of your way for those that you're serving, for your customers.”

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  12. “Independence. And so it was really fascinating. He was watching them interact with the store owners and just seeing how far they would go to serve people. I remember one time specifically we were in Tennessee and it was really late at night. All the other storm poison had gone home. It's my dad, myself, and the store manager. And we're sitting there stocking shelves. We're like, this is time.”

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  13. “Well, he ended up working with my mom. And they both were in the health food industry. So when you go into Whole Foods and you see vitamins and supplements in the vitamin Isle, they were the representative between the manufacturer of those products and getting into the shelf of those stores. What was interesting was to tag along with them on business trips where they'd drive around the south from South Carolina to Tennessee to Alabama and getting to see how they interacted with these store owners because it wasn't just Whole Foods, it was also the mom and pop vitamin stores as well”

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  14. “Well, certainly, both my parents, including my dad We're very entrepreneurial. They both worked for themselves growing up, so I had this environment where I saw my parents forging their own path, sort of their success was fully dependent on how hard they worked and how ambitious they were in their careers of what they were doing. And my dad certainly was entrepreneurial. He was always coming home with something on the weekend saying, I've got this new product idea, I've got this new service I found. Our basement was full of these different attempts at different things. And so there was this spirit of trying things out. By all means in our household.”

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  15. “My parents are from New York. My grandfather's Heritage back in Italy and Ireland, grandfathers in Brooklyn, Parents Grip and Long Island, moved to Georgia right before they had me. So I grew up in the Deep South. I was in the town of Lawrenceville, which is next to Snellville, which is near Lilburn, which is not far from Norcross, which is kind of close to Atlanta. So, if you went an hour in one direction, you'd be in farm fields and Horse ranches, and It was the South in every kind of way.”

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  16. “It's a big deal. And so at one point my teacher pulls me aside and she says, I need to talk to you. And she begins to explain to me that Students were so interested in these drawings that they were asking their parents for extra lunch money, and their parents were like, what do you need extra lunch money for? And they traced it back to me and the teacher shut me down. You can't be doing this.”

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  17. “I was totally hooked on a teleangel Raphael. Everybody was in it. And so I started drawing them and I just had such a good time drawing them that I would show them to my classmates. I remember in the second grade. My classmates started to want to buy them for me. And so I would mount them on this really special poster board and I'd come into class and I would be selling these for the total of $1. If you want to get a big one, I would sell you the bigger ones for $2. And so I was having a ball doing what I loved, making drawings, classmates, like making extra allowance every week. Dollars a lot of money when you're in second grade. It's a big deal.”

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  18. “Well, let's see Go back, I think it would probably be around. Second grade Second grade, well, you have to understand when I was young, I was really into art. I was into drawing. And around the second grade, the teenage mutant ninja turtles came out. Right.”

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