{"id":414,"date":"2014-09-30T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trich.me\/blog\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2015-08-28T03:39:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T03:39:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.trich.me\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi, I am T.Rich.<\/p>\n

My life story in a nutshell is my love for design, the web, and business which all started back in West Seattle as a child. Over the years, I have tried many attempts to perfecting my love for it all. Sadly it has come with many failures, but on the upside, I can always bring up that I won my 5th-grade elementary art poster contest.<\/p>\n

I studied\u00a0Business Management at\u00a0BYU in Provo, Ut.\u00a0Yes\u00a0I am a practicing Mormon<\/a>. I love everything to do with tech, startups, and sports. But hey, I have tried my fair share of everything. Including\u00a0a professional\u00a0surfing career<\/a>\u00a0(things didn’t work out). To put myself through college I contracted web design work. I was a beginner at first but I eventually got to a point as a freelance designer and front-end developer to be able to charge amounts I would never pay.<\/p>\n

Finally after working for others for so long I decided to start my own business. I founded MatchMate.me in 2010 which eventually sold to a Microsoft company called LikeBright in 2013.<\/p>\n

I graduated from BYU in 2013 and filled my time with a job after college at Tute Genomics, a genomics medical company. I worked there for a year until I got sick of working there. I wanted to do my own thing again so I started another company and co-founded DevMountain, a code boot camp located in Provo, Ut.<\/p>\n

Enough about me. This blog is about my experiences, both the\u00a0ups and the downs with in my career, design, web development, startups, family, and anything in between.\u00a0I have had a lot of learning moments\u00a0along the way and situations that I wouldn’t trade for a billion bucks. I want to share my life because hopefully from my stupidities you can find success.<\/p>\n

Other than all of the previous\u00a0abnormal things, I am just a regular guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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