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jpdoctor | 12 years ago
> Have you encountered any agism in your line of work?
None, but I might be a weird case. When I finished grad school, I was hired by TI, then Bell Labs. Both treated me like royalty. Because I am not satisfied with being treated like royalty, I went out and founded a company during 2000. I raised a ton of money from VCs (money was free back then). Bootstrapped another. So I've been running my own businesses ever since.
> Do you work with "trendy" languages and technologies or do you stick with tried-and-true, enterprisey type of stuff?
A bunch of years in there were hardware hacking. So lots of C and C++ through the 90s, some perl for maintainance. Never saw the need for trendy stuff until I saw Ruby on Rails. That made light work of projects I had in front of me.
> Have you considered moving into management or have you always just preferred getting down on your hands and knees so to speak and hacking things together?
Largest management position was CTO of an 85 person company. I'm happy to manage people, and believe that I can manage over the range of herding-cats to drill-Sargent. I definitely prefer the role of Field Marshall to General, ie rolling in the mud with the troops compared to suit-and-tie rub-elbows-with-those-who-need-their-elbows-rubbed.
Lately though: All hacking + customer management. We're growing, so I suspect managing more people is going to be back in my future.
pvnick|12 years ago
Oculus|12 years ago