Hey, it’s Mike, and this one hits deep

There's a spreadsheet on my computer with 2,000 rows in it.
Every row is a company I admired and wanted to work for. Google. Microsoft. Meta. Amex. Visa. Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, Amazon. I kept it like some people keep a wish list.

All 2,000 rejected me.

I want to tell you how a person ends up with a spreadsheet like that, because the answer isn't "he wasn't good enough." The answer takes about thirty years, and it starts before I was born.

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