The first real startup I was ever part of was Blue Lava Technologies, based out of Honolulu, HI. Our main investor was Henk Rogers of Tetris fame. On the same f

The first real startup I was ever part of was Blue Lava Technologies, based out of Honolulu, HI. Our main investor was Henk Rogers of Tetris fame. On the same floor of our building there was also the Tetris company, and right on the other side of my cubicle wall was the QA department. It was a tiny little room with 3-4 game consoles and a few computers where they would test and test and test and test every variation of Tetris imaginable. I became friends with them and eventually started to date one of the members of the QA team. She was obscenely good at Tetris and taught me so much about strategy and how to nail various t-spin moves. When Tetris took over Facebook gaming she would jump on my account and play all my friends absolutely sweeping the floor with them. Such a fun game that really does stand the test of time and will last forever. It's been a while since I played so much that I started to see and dream about the shapes - might be time to pick it back up.