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Brian Hashemi,\u00a0Director of Marketing<\/em><\/p>\n My hometown is\u2026<\/strong> I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong> I chose to go into marketing because… <\/strong> If my 3rd grade teacher could see me now, he or she would say\u2026 <\/strong> The most amazing thing I\u2019ve ever seen is\u2026 <\/strong>
\nIn Virginia somewhere. I didn\u2019t really grow up in a \u201ctown\u201d, it was really just the middle of the forest. Well, like a house in the middle of the forest. A house in a forest that was technically in a suburb of DC. My backyard flowed into a state park, so I could walk for miles back there without running into another house. It was great as a kid to be able to explore \u2013 I once found an old bootlegger\u2019s hideout back there, a dilapidated building full of old, rusty stills. It was pretty much exactly like the house they find at the end of The Blair Witch Project<\/a>. The place I grew up looked a lot like The Blair Witch Project.<\/p>\n
\nThe fact that existence exists, because it doesn\u2019t have to. There is something weird and profoundly mysterious about the idea that we are here at all. It\u2019s really much weirder than we allow ourselves to think about.<\/p>\n
\nMarketing chose me. I\u2019ve felt my way through a series of jobs that I\u2019ve found progressively more fulfilling, until finally landing at a company and role and team that I love.<\/p>\n
\nThat I\u2019m much bigger now? That my math and verbal skills have progressed (but my handwriting hasn\u2019t really)? I don\u2019t know, I think my 3rd grade teacher is dead. So I don\u2019t really think she\u2019d say anything.<\/p>\n
\nLet\u2019s see \u2013 I once saw some dogs eat a baby horse, that was pretty amazing. Oh, and ghosts; I\u2019ve seen two ghosts. Well, one was sort of a spirit that visited me in a dream. The other was like a real, physical ghost (that I saw in a graveyard in Scotland). So yeah, I guess I\u2019d say ghosts. I don\u2019t know, was I supposed to say something more profound, or more poetic? Like, \u201cThe most amazing thing I\u2019ve ever seen is the sun rising over Everest.\u201d I have seen the sun rising over Everest<\/a> \u2013 but I still say ghosts.<\/p>\n