Foreword

The early years in life, and in the life of a company, are the most formative. Our company, Resource Interactive, is no exception. Our beginnings trace back to 1981, when I took my first trip to Silicon Valley to visit our first client, a startup company by the name of Apple Computer. This first meeting, at their request, was to discuss whether we wanted to work with Apple to promote a new piece of consumer technology—the personal computer—which was being launched into retail computer stores around the country.

I left Apple’s office that day, having found our first national client, and drove to Half Moon Bay on Highway 1, where I would spend the rest of the afternoon staring out at the Pacific Ocean daydreaming about how the company and ...

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