I was not the first pick for this panel. I doubt I was on the top ten list of names. But I lived in Seattle and was in digital marketing, and that was enough for the organizers when they found themselves short a panelist. The panel was really Mix-A-Lot’s show.
I got maybe two sentences in while I tried to look cool in shades. Those two sentences opened a surprising amount of business opportunities for me.
It also kickstarted a close friendship with Ricardo Frazier the Co-Founder of Zaki Rose Media who, among his many accolades, is Mix’s agent.