If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2019, Faction Founder Luke Norris had executed a tremendously effective Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy from Colorado. Faction was recently acquired by ORIX. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Luke Norris: I was born in Nevada. Sramana Mitra: What's your background vis-a-vis education? Luke Norris: I'm a high school graduate. I was lucky to go to private school from K through 12. I was able to graduate rather early in high school. Sramana Mitra: What did you do after that? Luke Norris: At 15, I had my first company. It was a computer refurbishing business helping small to medium-sized businesses upgrade the computers they had. Soon thereafter, I got a full-time job at the age of 17