ANDREW GILLSMITH was told early by JEFF BEZOS of his plans to launch Amazon when both worked at a Wall Street firm. GILLSMITH, a technology & religion expert, has penned OUR LADY OF THE ARTILECTS.

Andrew Gillsmith is a science fiction writer whose education in  religious studies and passion for the cyberpunk genre has helped inform  and mold his style of storytelling. Fittingly, his first job out of  school was delivering mail for Jeff Bezos when he was still selling  books via Listserv. Since then, he’s worked in a number of interesting  roles, including head of customer experience for the Kentucky Derby,  leader of a proposed hyperloop project in the United States, head of  data analysis for a healthcare company, and SVP of sales for a digital  marketing agency. He currently works in publisher development in the  programmatic advertising space. Andrew lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife Cheryl and their two young sons. His new novel, Our Lady of the Artilects, is available for purchase on Amazon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-aidan-byrne0/support