Last week while in Seattle for the Moz conference, Rand Fishkin – who is keynoting at our SMX East event, invited me to his home/office to interview him. In part one of the interview, we spoke about the early days of the SEO industry, the wild parties Yahoo and Google held, how we both got into the SEO community, how he learned SEO and started his own community. We also discussed why he started Moz, the challenges he had over the years, why he ultimately left the company he co-founded and started his new start up named SparkToro.