Please Join isocket in Welcoming The Newest Member Of Our Team — Me! (Ryan Hupfer)
You know, there really isn’t anything in the world quite like diving head-first into a newly-funded, industry-changing, well-respected startup in Silicon Valley. There just isn’t. I’ve tried to think of another situation that’s somewhat similar in awesomeness and honestly, it was hard for me to find. This is why I’m practically smiling ear-to-ear while I’m writing this because I’ve been one of the few who get to enjoy the guaranteed wild ride of becoming part of isocket at the very beginning of it’s growth. To all of the soon-to-be isocket customers, I’m going to be the guy that you’ll get to know really well as I’ll be helping you get the most out of your isocket experience. If you have questions, I’ll be there to help. If you have an idea that can potentially make our product better, I’ll help it find the light of day. If you are simply wanting to learn about all that isocket has to offer, I’ll tell you anything you need to know (and more). Joining a startup at this stage isn’t for the faint of heart (i.e. it’s not always going to be butterflies and pixie stix), but man, for someone such as myself, it sure is a lot of fun.
Speaking of myself, I guess that I should you tell you all a little bit about who I am.
Well, my name is Ryan Hupfer and I’m now the third official member of the isocket team. So new, in fact, that I’m not even on our about us page (we’ll get to that here soon). I’m super-excited to be part of what I think is going to change that way that we currently think about all types of advertising. We have a few things to do before we can really start making some serious waves, but as you’ve hopefully already seen with what we’ve been able to do with TechCrunch, we really think that we’re on to something here and if you don’t already, we think you’ll feel the same way, too.
Seeing as how I’ve got a lot of catching up to do, I’m going to attempt to streamline the rest of my introductory process by creating an easy-to-digest, bulleted list of some Ryan Hupfer fun facts. If you have any other more specific questions that you would like to ask me, please feel free to leave them in the comments below and I’ll get back to you asap.
**Ryan Hupfer Fun Facts**
- I grew up in Pendleton, Indiana and decided to make the leap from the Midwest out to Silicon Valley just a little bit before Zak and John (the co-founders) did.
- I am a self-proclaimed tech geek that is very, very social — which sort of means that I’m sort of a fish-out-of-water in these parts (in a good way).
- I’ll be in charge of making sure that everyone who uses isocket is happy, informed, excited and feels awesome about being part of our community of isocketeers (I just made that up). If you’re planning on becoming an isocketeer, then you will be getting to know me really well. Don’t be too scared, I promise that I’m somewhat normal.
- The last job that I had was over at HubPages.com (a top 100 US website), where my job title was The HubPages Communicator of Awesomeness! — I still have yet to come up for my job title for isocket, though. Maybe you might have some suggestions? More on the job title in a later post.
- I just realized that there is a Pez Museum just down the street from our office here in Burlingame, which is a perk that I was not aware of when I decided to join the team. We really need to add that to our jobs page.
- I didn’t join the isocket team all by myself, I also brought along Frank (my Pug), who is now the second dog that now calls our office home. Boomer, John’s dog, was the first. They’re now quickly becoming BFFs.
Below you can see Me, Frank and some of our new (and apparently tasty) isocket swag.
Well, that’s just about all I have to say for now, but remember to please say hello in the comments and if you ever want to stop by the offices, I’d be happy to take you over to see the world’s largest Pez dispenser (see below). If that doesn’t make you want to visit, I really don’t know what will.
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