If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We continue our coverage of bootstrapping using services with a conversation from 2020 with Codesigned Founder CEO Jake Weaver. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jake Weaver: I'm from a very small town in the middle of Missouri in the Midwest called Lynn Creek, which had a population of just 289 people. It's nowhere near any of the tech industries today with the farming and vacation towns. There's not a whole lot of business there. Sramana Mitra: Where did you do your education? Jake Weaver: I studied in Kansas City where I got a Bachelors in Computer Information Systems. After graduating from there, I started working right away with Accenture. Right off the bat, I was thrown into big consulting. I was 21 at that time. I got