Q 20 years ago. Okay. So you jumped in real quick, just so people understand how you got into this. What was your first big success? Did you come from a, just an, did you go right into investing or did you have your own startup that you sold and that's what catapulted you?
A I'm neither. I have a much more sordid story than that. I was unemployed, and that's how I got started. Uh, I actually got out of school and, uh, started in political consulting. Someone forgot to tell me that politicians turn out of office, uh, and, uh, political projects come to an end, and I ended up finding myself unemployed, so I started something which was kind of a semi-merchant bank venture fund, uh, for technology startups out of Israel, and, uh, I guess the first, uh, Good size success was a company called PictureVision, or for most of your listeners, they don't even know what I'm talking about, but back then there were cameras that had film in them, and, ah, what PictureVision did was enable you to get your film scanned at a local, ah, grocery store, or by sending it by mail, snail mail, ah, to a Kodak facility, and, ah, then it was scanned and put up on this thing called the internet, ah, which most people didn't know about in 1995. And then you could share your pictures with grandma. This was the first online photo sharing site, and it was bought by AOL and Kodak, now with blessed memory.
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