Come n’ get it, he thinks.

Santi once invited Neil on a surf trip in the van. Neil had to sleep on the floor in a sleeping bag, huddled next to the rusted wheel well. The stark contrast was indicative of times to come.

This is Neil as an oversized 3rd grader, still blissfully unaware that life ain’t some goddamn fairytale, kid.

We try not to talk about this phase.

Neil’s improv partner looking for any contribution whatsoever from Neil – anything, kaman.

Neil and Kopec worked together before Super Serious Company. Santi is secretly jealous of Neil’s past business lovers.

Neil and his pet bird or some bird and its pet Neil – unclear.

Some of Neil’s early coding quirks are still with him today: poop.js, snarky commit messages, deleting entire files as a debugging strategy, etc.

Before becoming a software engineer, Neil did kids’ birthday parties. The parents quickly discovered it was not his calling.

Neil’s glory days at GroupMe.

Neil tries to become as many kids’ godfather as possible; it’s his thing. I don’t believe this one went through.

Neil insists on wearing a suit on every flight. Hasn't used the suit once since moving to Portugal, but it takes up half the room in Santi’s closet.

Neil has no kids yet.

Here, an unsolicited advance slowly becomes okay.

As a full grown adult, Neil made this Christmas ornament.

Voilà.

These days, Neil wears the same t-shirt everyday; it’s this one – $150 somehow.

Neil loves convertibles, money, and tuxes.

This is Neil a few seconds away from crossing the finish line at his first or second marathon. Anyways, that’s not important; what is important is Nicolas.

Neil has always been athletically inclined and made it a point to show off at parties and family events.

Neil’s passion: improv. There are no improv studios here in Portugal, so he keeps pitching ideas that are improv in app form.

Neil spooked by something stage left.

I can’t say anything mean about this.