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I was employee #3 at Texas.net (Datafoundry's predecessor) back in 1995. While Jonah Yokubaitis (Ron's son and texas.net co-founder) was a bit of a hot head an
by chrissnell 12y ago
I was employee #3 at Texas.net (Datafoundry's predecessor) back in 1995. While Jonah Yokubaitis (Ron's son and texas.net co-founder) was a bit of a hot head and we had a few quarrels back when we were both young and dumb, the Yokubaitis family are good people. Ron Yokubaitis, in particular, is a good person. I knew him as a staunch Libertarian. In fact, he was the first Libertarian I ever met and what he told me about the party later influenced my own political views. While I have no evidence or knowledge to support or disprove this man's claim, I don't believe for a second that this is true. DataFoundry/Texas.net was quite the cowboy operation--literally and figuratively--and they employed some colorful and hot-tempered characters over the years, including my younger self. This Nick Caputo character sounds like sour grapes to me.
- mrbill 12y agoHey, Chris. :) People are going to say the ex-Texas.Net Mafia is showing up now...
- chrissnell 12y agoHowdy, Bill. :) Good to see you around here. I'm interested to see if anybody else shows up. It's hard to believe that this was almost 20 years ago. I wonder what happened to everybody. Ed, Mo, Mikedoug, etc.
- mrbill 12y agoAs far as I know, Ed is now/still the CIO at DataFoundry. I'm in contact with Brett H. on FB and we're laughing about this. Mikedoug moved on a few years ago but I'm not sure what he's doing now. Mark is a barista somewhere in Texas, according to FB. I've lost touch with pretty much everyone else...
- 19dscout 12y agoWhen I left late last year, Mikedoug was still at DF.
- kjs3 12y agoClearly, there is a cabal at work here...