Absolutely, it changed the trajectory of my career into the world of startups and smaller companies. It was somewhat indirect though, I got curious about what t

Absolutely, it changed the trajectory of my career into the world of startups and smaller companies. It was somewhat indirect though, I got curious about what the company I read about was doing so contacted them just to talk about their tech. It was a Rails/Ruby shop and I ended up there some time later--accidentally because another job I had lined up had a hiring freeze right after I got through their process.