Timing, luck, and connections. I decided it was time to look for a new job, and that evening I went to Craigslist, just to see what jobs were listed there. I

Timing, luck, and connections. I decided it was time to look for a new job, and that evening I went to Craigslist, just to see what jobs were listed there. I had never looked at them before, and didn't have much hope, but one of the ads was for exactly what I wanted, working at a company that I built part of the initial proof of concept for a decade previous, and had done a small consulting job 5 years earlier. I reached out to the CTO via e-mail, he asked if he could take me out to lunch the next day, and 2 days later I was in the office setting up my credentials and fixing some problems in their infrastructure so the CTO could go on vacation the next day. A few weeks later we negotiated the deal and I started my new job.