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Succession plan: Campus Nerds streamline net operation

Net Nerds has a new leader and a new format, but it’s still about fixing people’s computer problems.

Kristen Berman, who founded Net Nerds in 2004 after she and her roommates bought beer for a neighbor who fixed their computer, graduated in December and landed a job in Silicon Valley working for Intuit, which produces TurboTax and QuickBooks.

Berman…is retaining ownership of Net Nerds but has handed the operational reins to Chris Friederich, a UW junior finance major.