After a year of driving a full-sized school bus to two dozen cities (story in the Experience section of my profile), I spent a dozen years leading marketing teams inside local television stations. As familiarity and boredom with the work crept in, I earned an MBA and did project work for a variety of companies to explore interests and identify transferrable skills. In that process, I connected deeply with a bootstrapped software startup, BombBomb.When I joined BombBomb, we had fewer than 10 employees. Since then, we've enjoyed +20,000% growth in customers and in revenue. We're a team of 150 people based in downtown Colorado Springs who are on a mission to rehumanize people who've been dehumanized by system or circumstance; we're funding the effort by helping people rehumanize their business communication.I've now spent a decade helping people enjoy clearer communication, human connection, and higher conversion by replacing some of their faceless, digital communication with simple, personal video messages in emails, text messages, LinkedIn messages, Slack messages, and similar. I've sent more than 12,000 videos myself and co-authored two (and a half) books on the what, why, who, when, and how of this "relationships through video" movement.