How Did Pat Walls Go From Economics at UCSB to Writing Software?

Pat Walls says he never knew what he wanted. He did poorly in high school, started at community college, considered law and English, then accounting, then technology, then code. He had been an Apple-obsessed teenager, but the family was outside the industry, and founding took more than ten years. After the University of California, Santa Barbara, he joined Deloitte because a Big Four job looked solid and San Francisco might lead to startups. He lasted under a year. It was too corporate. Startup accounting work there led to about eighteen months at Anaplan, closer to implementation. A coding bootcamp around late 2015 or 2016 made him a software engineer. At the time he was only taking the next step.