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SLO LIFE Oct/Nov 2020

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY VANESSA PLAKIAS<br />

A little more than ten years ago, JESSE DUNDON was living in a garden shed<br />

on Hathway Avenue in San Luis Obispo. Each morning, he would make his<br />

commute across the backyard to the garage where a handful of recent Cal<br />

Poly graduates clanked away at computers in a mad scramble to launch a<br />

new technology company. Today, he is the Co-Founder & CEO of a sprawling<br />

enterprise that employs over a hundred people and counts some of the<br />

country’s most respected and recognizable brands as clients. Together with<br />

his wife and their fifteen-month-old son, he represents a new generation of<br />

entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Central Coast economy. Here is his story…<br />

OCT/NOV <strong>2020</strong> | <strong>SLO</strong> <strong>LIFE</strong> MAGAZINE | 37

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