If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. SignalWire Founder CEO Anthony Minessale is building a very interesting programmable communication platform company that has its roots in Wisconsin. This conversation is from 2020. 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? Anthony Minessale: I'm from the Midwest. I live in Wisconsin where I've lived all my life. I have been involved in computers since high school. After high school, I became interested in how the internet works. At that time, the internet was starting to take off. I started to teach myself programming. I spent many years studying and trying to offer things like tech support. Sometime around late 90s, I started working with an ISP that was providing web hosting. It was a new idea of trying to consolidate web hosting into a more