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I also liked how they implicitly bashed 80% of the guys who presented by pointing out that they're doing "real" technology work, not just throwing a Rails app t
by tansey 16y ago
I also liked how they implicitly bashed 80% of the guys who presented by pointing out that they're doing "real" technology work, not just throwing a Rails app together.
- coffeemug 16y agoActually, we didn't mean disrespect to any of the other presenters (we're friends with many of them), or other startups. All of these guys are doing challenging work that requires superhuman efforts. We just pointed out that most startups are applying existing technology to business problems in new ways, while we're inventing new technology (which means that in our case there's not only business risk, but technology risk as well). We thought that the kind of people that would be interested in working on what we're doing probably wouldn't want to work on typical web startup problems, so we wanted to make that distinction with the first point.