Tanner Nelson

In one of my previous jobs, they coined the phrase "taking things from zero to Tanner" - I like to be all-in all the time.

For example, growing up, my favorite sport in the winter was basketball. I didn't touch any other kind of sports equipment during the season except my basketball and my shoes. But in the spring, summer, and fall, soccer was my favorite sport, and I didn't touch my basketball stuff until the next winter. I literally didn't have a single bone in my body that wanted to play basketball when it was time to play soccer. All in. All the time.

Because of this mentality, I had a really difficult time deciding what I wanted to do as a career. I switched my major 7 times, and tried to pick something from practicing law to becoming an optometrist. Each time I switched my major, I learned a lot of valuable things and thought I had finally found what I wanted to do.

Each time I was wrong. I worked in call centers, became an ophthalmic technician, sold makeup, pest control, and jewelry, started a digital marketing business, worked in project management and e-commerce, and never found the perfect fit.

What I realized is that at each stop along the way, I was learning how to organize information and build processes in each of these different industries. I've become intimately familiar with all types of businesses - larger enterprises, small agencies, retailers, you name it, and I've probably done it or researched it :)

Now, I am a builder - I use monday.com to create efficient processes and systems to help business owners easily operate their business. I take complex processes and make simple, easy-to-use tools to help businesses scale. I design simple dashboards to give business leaders actionable info to make better decisions.

I build cool stuff on monday.com.