Way back when I was young and webvan.com was hot, I also worked on similar stuff. I didn't know then who I was, or even slightly what I wanted in life. Typical

Way back when I was young and webvan.com was hot, I also worked on similar stuff. I didn't know then who I was, or even slightly what I wanted in life. Typical early-20s kind of thing. Anyways, I understand exactly what this guy feels like, as I feel the same way about the things I did back then. And these days I have turned down a couple of jobs that I felt were being too aggressive about advertising. One company's product was to give you a kind of GMail search, at the cost of collecting all kinds of information about you and aggregating it on remote servers to use for advertising. The founders were real cool guys, but this was just not something I am willing to contribute to.