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I believe one of the founders of Booking.com has had some similar experience (source: "De Machine", the book about Booking.com) and after 4 years of travelings

by marhee 2y ago

I believe one of the founders of Booking.com has had some similar experience (source: "De Machine", the book about Booking.com) and after 4 years of travelings & yoga etc. he sneaked back in into the company. Most of his coworkers do not know he's a founder. He's been fixing Perl bugs, writing scripts and coding some features at least for some years (maybe he's moved on already, don't know, the book is a couple of years old).

raybb 2y ago
Sounds like a great book. Did you happen to read it in English? Ask because my brief search for it shows at least one review saying it's a bad translation. Link to more info for those interested: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL57401616M/The_Machine https://openlibrary.org/books/OL57401616M/The_Machine https://www.lebowskipublishers.nl/boek/2257/stijn-bronzwaer-merijn-rengers-en-joris-kooiman-the-machine.html https://www.lebowskipublishers.nl/boek/2257/stijn-bronzwaer-...
- marhee 2y ago
  I read it in Dutch.
rgovostes 2y ago
Maybe he’s just a sadist who wanted to return to implementing dark patterns to abuse his customer base into panic-booking hotels. https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipulation https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipula...
brap 2y ago
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has recently rejoined the company as IC. 1:1s with his manager must be awkward.
- ctenb 2y ago
  What is IC?
  - brap 2y ago
    Individual contributor
  - baobabKoodaa 2y ago
    individual contributor
- Lionga 2y ago
  Did he pass the leetcode interview?