#124 - From Fantasy Stock Betting to Milk Bombs: Generating Ideas with Elaine Zelby

I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to Mm I put my all in it like my day song On the roadless travel never looking back Okay. What's up everybody? Uh

Sean here. We're waiting on Sam. He's gonna be joining in a second. We'll let him, you know, make his dramatic entrance. And then we have Elaine Zelby with us. Did I say it right? Hello. Yes, that's perfect. It's weird'cause I've met people but I've never said their full name out loud and um I do it for the first time on the podcast and I'm like, Well, shit. Uh hopefully I get this right. But yours is pretty easy. Yeah, that's for sure. Me and Sam have a mutual friend who I think has known us for a He's known me he's known Sam for a long time. He's known me for a couple years. Uh and he calls me Shan. Uh he thinks my name is Shan, and I haven't corrected him. And so he just calls me Shan and I just let it go, which is uh kind of a weird move on my part. I should probably tell him at some point. Yeah, I feel like there's always that awkwardness of if your name is pronounced a little bit different than it's spelled of like, do you correct people all the time? Do you just let it go and be like what if? It's okay.

Yeah, yeah. I usually correct people because and because I would want if I was saying somebody's name wrong, I would want them to be like, hey, actually it's this. Um but the moment went by and I didn't say it and I was like, Well, moment went by now. Now I'm stuck with this. Uh now that now my name's Sharon. I'm but might as well tell everyone that's what it is. Um Okay, so tell people what you do. Um And we met because you sent me a bunch of cool ideas once and you were like, hey, we should meet. Uh, I like your podcast and I have a bunch of ideas too. And then we did a Zoom call that by the end of it, I was like, shit, I should have just recorded that. That would have been an episode. And so finally got you on for an actual episode. But uh give people a quick little um Uh like introduction. Yeah, for sure. So um I have had kind of a random life and career. I started as a mechanical engineer. I actually did undergrad and grad school and thought I was gonna do uh mechanical device or sorry, uh medical devices. And I'm really impatient, so pretty quickly realized that hardware was probably not a good fit for me. and wanted to do my own company but couldn't figure out what I wanted to spend seven to ten years on. So I joined as one of the first employees of an enterprise software company, which they don't tell you that it's the same risk without any of the upside. So I learned that lesson, which was interesting. But spent about five years there and got to build out a lot of the go to market functions.

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