Ev’s path west was spooky similar to my own:

I moved to California…I actually didn’t land in Silicon Valley proper, but on the Northern tip of the Bay Area, in a small town called Sebastopol…the headquarters of O’Reilly. I got a job at O’Reilly…as a way to get me to California. I was 25. I could “code” HTML…I got a salary of $48,500 from O’Reilly…I was lucky O’Reilly took a chance on me…But I soon grew frustrated working for others and quit after just seven months.

Funny tidbit: 8 years later and I was only making $1500 more!