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Cerilli grew up in Rhode Island and he was always a hustler. He isn't a coder, he's a salesman, and Cerilli perfected his technique by selling flowers, lemonade and T-shirts to the Brown University community with his friend, Irving Fain. Fain says they'd walk away some weekends with thousands of dollars in their pockets. "If you can sell roses to people on a hot day during college graduation, you can sell anything," says Fain. "Wiley can sell effortlessly. He is the type of person who walks into a store to sell someone, and within minutes they're trying to sell him, asking to be his customer. Cerilli learned a lot from his father, who died of cancer when Cerilli was 16. A real estate developer, Cerilli's father constructed multiple large buildings in Providence, one of which had no windows. He hired an artist from RISD to paint beautiful bay windows on it that could be seen from the highway. "I wanted to be like that and paint windows on my