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March 14, 2020
Tulum, Mexico

Maria & Anthony

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Anthony Knierim

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Maria Kreighbaum

Tulum, Mexico

March 14

2020

How We Met

Cold calling and pizza

Maria was changing careers and looking to get into tech. After searching for a hip, cool, early stage startup in Chicago, Maria found a company called Matchup. She emailed the info@matchup.io address on the website and proceeded to explain, as Anthony claims, "all the things we were doing wrong and why we needed to hire her." While most might be off-put by such aggressive prospecting, Anthony was plotting his own ambitious sales pitch. He happened to be using an email tool that brought up every recipient's LinkedIn profile. While Anthony wasn't hiring for the proposed position, he formulated some other plans after seeing Maria's photo. We first met when Anthony showed up 15 minutes late to a morning meeting at the Starbucks around the corner from his apartment (#toniotime). He was wearing basketball shorts, a backpack and tennis shoes. Anthony is a captivating sales person - while we weren't accomplishing anything significant in that meeting or the quasi-business meetings to follow, we both greatly anticipated the next time we could just sit and talk for hours about business, life and back problems. Eventually, Anthony took Maria on their first date, which was a dinner at Coalfire Pizza. He asked Maria to pick him up at his apartment and instructed her that she was supposed to pretend to be an employee because we were going to dinner with a Salesforce rep, who was conveniently footing the $40 pizza bill. Romance. Nonetheless, this sense of absurd adventure is what made it all the fun! Fast forward 4 years and we now live in Lincoln Park with our Mini Schnauzer, Sgt. Pepper.

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