What’s Your Story: Nicole Forsgren
GEHRKE: We’ve talked a little bit beforehand, but you’ve had this amazing career in tech. How did you actually … tell us a bit about how you grew up, and how did you end up in tech?
NICOLE FORSGREN: Yeah, it’s, you know, it’s, kind of, this ridiculous story. I grew up in a little farm town and ended up going to college and thought I would just be there a year or two because …
GEHRKE: Little farm town in?
FORSGREN: In Idaho.
GEHRKE: In Idaho?
FORSGREN: Yeah. So across the street from a potato field. My grandpa was a potato farmer. And where I’m from, girls—a lot of girls—go to college but not usually for very long. You kind of go to school to get married. And