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Very tangentially.. In the early days of DigitalOcean, I was fortunate enough to spend time with most of the devtool CEOs, Leibert, Polvi, Hykes, Newcomb, Colli
by neom 4y ago
Very tangentially.. In the early days of DigitalOcean, I was fortunate enough to spend time with most of the devtool CEOs, Leibert, Polvi, Hykes, Newcomb, Collison, etc etc etc. All very smart guys.
However James (and Sara!) was one of the most brilliant thinkers I came across. It's always been somewhat of a shame to me he didn't keep building firebase independently. Knowing him (shyguy), I'm not surprised he sold it to google, but I feel like we need to make more space for shy/guys/gals/*.
How many of you think Dokku is awesome? But are we doing enough to support folks like Jeff Lindsay (shyguy)?
Yeah, firebase was awesome when James was still working on it, people like him and Jeff Lindsay (@progrium) are surely brilliant thinkers.
How do we support them (shy-folk ceo)? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7844457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7844457)
- jamest 4y agoThose words are far too kind! Most of the credit goes to my co-founder, Andrew, and the whole team who gave nothing short of everything to build it.
- neom 4y agoYou did a great job James. Yes Andrew and Sara and the team were pivotal, but you CEO'd it... I'll never forget when you showed me that weird arcade game y'all used to demo, the paradigme shifting was high and you did a fantastic job of explaining why. Hope you're well old friend. :)
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