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Ferdowsi says joining was like scratching an itch here.[0] I've heard from alumni he spent a lot of time coding in his room, like more than average compared to
by whymauri 8y ago
Ferdowsi says joining was like scratching an itch here.[0] I've heard from alumni he spent a lot of time coding in his room, like more than average compared to your friendly neighborhood MIT student; I can imagine the prospect of high-risk, high-reward coding for 18 hours/day was very appealing.
[0] https://medium.com/the-story-of-grip/how-two-guys-that-barely-knew-each-other-build-one-of-the-biggest-cloud-storage-companies-in-the-c41c383a952e https://medium.com/the-story-of-grip/how-two-guys-that-barel...
- plinkplonk 8y agofrom the article (medium, not BBC) "The pair worked tirelessly for three months in a cramped office in Cambridge, waking up everyday at noon and working till dawn the next day. “I think we started like most of these tech companies begin. Just a couple of guys in their boxers coding in a dark room,” Houston says. “We just kept our heads down and built.”"