There was something about the change of scale in that that I liked. Of course, I like that intimacy being paired with a gigantic market. I couldn't fully appreciate it, but my journalism background was great training for this wild world of Internet entrepreneurship. Journalists are constantly thrown into positions of complete flux and uncertainty. And they have to be confident that at the end of the day, they're going to come out of it with the story, or the product.
Journalists start every day having no idea where they're going to be before the day is over.
That certainly has been the situation with most people in the Internet in the last few years. Journalists work under impossible deadlines but they learn to do that with the confidence that they will deliver on that deadline, even when it seems impossible. Journalists are always trying to contact new people and establish a rapport with them quickly and gain their confidence in order to move ahead. It's the same with entrepreneurs. So I have a whole skill set that I developed in one career that turned out to be incredibly valuable in a second career.