Nick grew up in the Santa Clara Valley when it was "The Valley of Heart's Desire", full of orchards and fruit canneries. Both the Croat and Russian (Volga German) sides of his family came to California around the turn of the century and went into fruit farming. Nick picked apricots, sold his grandfather's apples at a ramshackle roadside stand, and worked summers at the canneries putting himself through college. Then, as the developers were moving into the valley, the orchards were being uprooted, the canneries were relocating to their new fruit sources, and "The Valley of Heart's Desire" morphed into "Silicon Valley", Nick followed a similar trajectory into software design.
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