Prairie Portraits is a weekly set of questions intended to help the community get to know someone from the Silicon Prairie startup scene a little bit better. Prairie Portraits feature a fixed set of questions ranging from career background and personal preferences to, perhaps, off-the-wall questions on YouTube videos and entrance music.
Name: Anne Moser
Title/Occupation: HRIS Analyst for Nueterra
Age: 30
Hometown: Bloomfield, Iowa
Current city: Ankeny, Iowa
Personal
Title of my autobiography: “Midwest Girl at Heart”
Thing I can’t live without: My smartphone
Drink of choice: Boulevard or Goose Island beers
Last book I read: “Divergent” by Veronica Roth
Ultimate road trip snack: Gushers!
Entrance song if I was a wrestler: “Save a Horse” by Big & Rich
Celebrity doppelgänger: I WISH I had a celebrity doppelganger!
Guilty pleasure band and/or film: While You Were Sleeping
Chosen career in an alternate reality: High school math teacher
Worst OCD tendency: Swearing in the office
Quote I might have said: “Shut the front door!”
Which actor or actress, and why: Tom Hanks—he’s just so good!
Favorite YouTube video: SNL mock of Solange Knowles & Jay-Z’s elevator fight
Thanks to our sponsor
Local
Best place in Des Moines no one knows about: Des Moines Botanical Center
Des Moines’ obligatory tourist stop: the Iowa State Fair
One thing Des Moines has that other Silicon Prairie cities don’t: Me!
Best thing going for Des Moines’ startup community: StartupCity
Last local restaurant I ate at: Creme Cupcake + Dessert Lounge
Best meal I’ve had in Des Moines: Steak—you can’t beat the beef in this state 🙂
Des Moines would be better if… a celebrity lived here.
The Startup Scene
Social media pet peeve: #100HappyDays—I feel these posts are sort of annoying. I’m happy too dammit!
App I’m obsessed with: E!Online—I think I love celebrity gossip too much.
Silicon Prairie startup crush: I’m new so I’m still working on that.
Most comfortable startup T-shirt I own: Eek… I don’t have one yet!
Something most people don’t know about me: My background is actually in accounting.
Entrepreneur I most want to grab a drink with: Mark Zuckerberg—what’s he REALLY like…
I do what I do because… I love it! Thousands of rows of data to analyze & manipulate? Yes please!
Before I was in startups… I was an accounting nerd.
If money wasn’t an object, my next company would be… I would open my own bar.
In five years, I’ll… be five years closer to 40.
In five years, the Silicon Prairie… will be bigger and better!
Credits: Photo courtesy of Anne Moser.
