throwaway I was hired as the first software developer for an eCommerce company in the late 90's. Little could I know at the time that writing secure server soft

throwaway I was hired as the first software developer for an eCommerce company in the late 90's. Little could I know at the time that writing secure server software would become so lucrative. While I was not directly impacted by the bust given my founding role and creative importance in value to the organization never-the-less the bust did hit the business. Having been the sole architect and first to create many of the founding technologies in payments used everywhere today our company was being utilized by Paypal for several years before they created this functionality themselves in house. The bust was a cycle of economics unavoidable but looking at database records in realtime for Ebay and therefore PayPal purchases of famous people was a way to pass the time. And yes, I still create critical realtime systems.