As “the” rockstar programmer fresh outta high school who started “the credit card at the gas pump” business, the entrepreneur too got too greedy and stingy with

As “the” rockstar programmer fresh outta high school who started “the credit card at the gas pump” business, the entrepreneur too got too greedy and stingy with the payout despite me helping hiring the best development team … in 1980. And I was paid $10,000/month (1981 dollars), the least of all sr. programmers. Platform was 8086, Motorola 6502, 16KB RAM, RS-488/RS-232, and assembly languages. Surely enough, we broke away and and many of us joined Gasboy, Inc. The budding star of a startup at many gas and oil conferences was then no more. Had numerous offers (due to my networking of my business card being handed out at conference). Them recruiters were all initially shocked at my price tag but insisted then. I instead went into 1980s primordial cybersecurity and never looked back. 40 years later, there is at least 6 of those credit card paypoints at every gas stations throughout the world. And I am glad I did. I liked what I contributed to the safety of the computing world. Off topic: And most designers are still an idiot, security-wise.