I avoided the extremes by consulting for dotcoms. It sounds like you tried to do the same indirectly by working at aD (sorry that didn't work out). I have a

I avoided the extremes by consulting for dotcoms. It sounds like you tried to do the same indirectly by working at aD (sorry that didn't work out). I have a lot of respect for what Greenspun was doing back then ( particularly things like arsDigita university, photo.net and Scorecard - http://www.scorecard.org http://www.scorecard.org ). Even his Tcl AOLserver abomination had its good points :-) I never understood why he needed to take VC money. With his business he could have grown it and sold it or eventually gone public on his own.