25 years ago I did the SV startup "thing" creating OST. We initially just had a shed on the palo alto ring and leased rack space out of it to the California Rocket Society, but we did go all in on the startup thing and had a building in mountainview at one point (near the intersection of hope and castro street, ironically enough).
15 years ago I did the entire Google interview process, and then turned them down at the very end. Part of why relates to quality, but I saw it as a byproduct of a very backward looking management culture, despite the cute perks. Basically they arranged peoples in cubes so that managers could "manage" by watching other people work, which is why they also refused to have remote workers. Their concepts of management felt very 19th century, despite the advanced video conferencing everywhere well before anyone else which was already perfect for remote work (as every actually smart company figured out and used google tech for) that they themselves did not actually use.
10 years ago I was burned down by SV VC's, and never again looked back there for anything. SV is dead to me. And it would be best if it were dead to the rest of the country, too.
Super cool, but you should create something more complete. A complete story of your life. Bayonne seems interesting, but I want to read the gory details. I've carefully read your comments here, and I suspect you could write something really interesting once you've structured your thoughts :)
As for my more recent activity with regard to SV VC's, why I had been at war with Eric Prince, what testimony I had chosen to provide to the Muller investigation, how CIA funding is used to undermine SV, etc, all relate to my time developing the Wickr platform last decade, for which amusing I also have patents.
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25 years ago I did the SV startup "thing" creating OST. We initially just had a shed on the palo alto ring and leased rack space out of it to the California Rocket Society, but we did go all in on the startup thing and had a building in mountainview at one point (near the intersection of hope and castro street, ironically enough).
15 years ago I did the entire Google interview process, and then turned them down at the very end. Part of why relates to quality, but I saw it as a byproduct of a very backward looking management culture, despite the cute perks. Basically they arranged peoples in cubes so that managers could "manage" by watching other people work, which is why they also refused to have remote workers. Their concepts of management felt very 19th century, despite the advanced video conferencing everywhere well before anyone else which was already perfect for remote work (as every actually smart company figured out and used google tech for) that they themselves did not actually use.
10 years ago I was burned down by SV VC's, and never again looked back there for anything. SV is dead to me. And it would be best if it were dead to the rest of the country, too.
Wow, some story! Did you write it out somewhere ...?
This actually does cover the OST part...
linux.com/news/david-sugar-talks-a...
Super cool, but you should create something more complete. A complete story of your life. Bayonne seems interesting, but I want to read the gory details. I've carefully read your comments here, and I suspect you could write something really interesting once you've structured your thoughts :)
I believe some parts would be very actively censored though...
As for my more recent activity with regard to SV VC's, why I had been at war with Eric Prince, what testimony I had chosen to provide to the Muller investigation, how CIA funding is used to undermine SV, etc, all relate to my time developing the Wickr platform last decade, for which amusing I also have patents.