I flopped at interview at Micron PC (MPC) around 2005 maybe? An interviewer asked me who their main customer was and I had absolutely no idea. Turned out that i

I flopped at interview at Micron PC (MPC) around 2005 maybe? An interviewer asked me who their main customer was and I had absolutely no idea. Turned out that it was the government. I was so idealistic at the time that I was thinking about stuff like NAND flash memory and FPGAs and affordable solar panels and multicore CPUs. Which were ideas being explored by Micron. But MPC's business was supplying rudimentary computers for office use. That was a solved problem by the late 90s so there wasn't anywhere for the market to go except a race to the bottom. On a side note, many techies in southern Idaho felt that Micron and HP had monopolized the local tech scene through tax waivers and hiring up talent, barring entry to startups until around 2015. Today there's an eerie feeling that it's all happening too quickly and we'll go the way of Austin as thousands of economic and climate refugees flock here from other states, paving all of the farms for subdivisions and cutting down all of the trees for 3 story apartments. Now a home that was $150k in 2010 goes for half a million dollars while wages for average working people still hover in the $40-60k range, so the locals are getting forced out just like everywhere else.