S5 Bonus: From Art to a Salesforce Acquisition: The Troops Story with Greg Ratner

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Sep 9, 2021 · 37m

Greg Rather comes from a family of artists, so he always envisioned himself going in to art. From an early age, he was drawing and creating comics (funny enough, centered around his favorite animal - pigs). And back then, he was also a budding entrepreneur. In fact, in grade school, he would Xerox his comics and sell them at school for a buck a piece.

In High School, he got into animation and game development, which was the catalyst for his interest in programming. He started out for doing animation by hand, drawing each cell and each frame by itself, which was super tedious. The tools he…