nine years old, selling baseball cards out of my bedroom. It was a terrible business, as my customer acquisition strategy was totally reliant on the hospitality of my parents. In the eighth grade, my entrepreneurial spirit took a different shape as I watched the 2000 election, mesmerized by the romanticism that characterizes the startup-like launch, rise, and fall of presidential campaigns. That election started me down a political career path. At the age of seventeen, I took my first “real job” managing a campaign in my hometown of Tampa, Florida. After winning that election, I thought I was
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