horatio sanz. it was a really fun time. emily: why did you stop?ick: unlike some of those people, i didn't get any of the things i auditioned for. i eventually decided i need to go back to figure out how to make money. emily: i imagine people screaming at you in the theater. i wonder if improv is good training for dealing with wall street. [laughter] dick: i will say this. i remember, when you are improvising, people are yelling at the stage and so forth. i did this show. about three minutes into this hour-long show, these delightful, drunk australians started yelling, "you suck. get off." emily: so you went into consulting. dick: the internet took off. this is early 1993. i remember getting the ac.com domain name for anderson consulting. i just went off and started one of the first web design and development shops. sold that. started working on what ended up being an early group-based blog -- we did not call it blogging. and sold that. and then started an alerts platform. amazingly, we sold that on september 12th, 2000. we had a one-year restricti