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  • 6/14/2025
CEOs and C-suite executives revealed their first-ever jobs at the #FortuneCOOSummit.
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00:00My first job in college actually was working at a cheese shop called Formaggio.
00:04My very first job was clamming, working on the water and getting clams,
00:08bringing it back to my local neighborhood, putting a sign up and selling it for a
00:12dollar a dozen of clams. I had a paper route. I think that was my very first job.
00:16My first job, I was 12 years old. I was working out of my dad's warehouse taking
00:20inventory of granite and marble slabs. My first job was selling copy machines
00:25door-to-door to office parks throughout Southern California. I was a mall manager.
00:31The entire mall, there's kind of people behind the scenes. I was the mall manager managing all
00:36the tenants. My first job was actually working at a place called Blockbuster Video. It's remarkable
00:42to see actually just how technology has evolved. First job job was working at an accounting firm
00:49out of college. My very first job was to actually build AI models for predicting crop yield and I've
00:55only done AI since then. I started at Jenner Mills in a corporate accounting role. My first job at
01:02Brooks was called a tech rep. I was an engineer in training at Shell Oil Products Company in Tampa, Florida.

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