Chapter 4
We started out small, but we didn’t stay that way. If I said our seedier contacts didn’t help out at first, I’d be lying. It didn’t take long to push past the need to bribe people into giving us contracts we were too small and too green to have been given, though. We were good, and we were, for the most part, honest about costs and deadlines. Mark had a talent for seeing beyond the immediate picture, Devin was great with numbers, and I had a way with people. More so, I had a way with making people believe in what we could do and convincing them to go along with what I had in mind. That is no small feat when you’re a rough bunch of lanky twenty-two-year olds, but it only took us a decade to get here and we’ve managed to hold on to it. I realized very quickly that a lot of people
