30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
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Thank you! The startup that was gameplay.com suffered with both the internet bubble bursting 5 months in and less-than-ideal management decisions, driven by an excess of cash and likely conflicting purposes on the board - it crashed and burned in ~18 months. I left after 12, picking up my share options (what was left of them!) on the way out, to join a consultancy company that had been formed by BT in the meantime as a way of holding on to good people (aka paying them enough outside the regulated pay bands!)... also great fun in a different way :)
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This was a really cool read. Those were surely heady times. It would be great to get a sequel at some point!
Thank you! The startup that was gameplay.com suffered with both the internet bubble bursting 5 months in and less-than-ideal management decisions, driven by an excess of cash and likely conflicting purposes on the board - it crashed and burned in ~18 months. I left after 12, picking up my share options (what was left of them!) on the way out, to join a consultancy company that had been formed by BT in the meantime as a way of holding on to good people (aka paying them enough outside the regulated pay bands!)... also great fun in a different way :)