Well, there's not much to say, really: I finished college, joined a dull-ish corporate job (that nonetheless taught me more than I wanted about politics, including the fact that I suck at it), and then joined a startup.

This is the kind of startup that doesn't figure all that much on HN, since it's in a rather specialized niche of a specialized industry to begin with. I'm not a founder, but one of the early employees.