I'm pretty skeptical, too. At Google or Facebook (or wherever they were), they were working on a small slice of a massive pie. Building a complex site like Op

I'm pretty skeptical, too. At Google or Facebook (or wherever they were), they were working on a small slice of a massive pie. Building a complex site like Opentable from scratch is a different creature altogether. Two months "part-time" seems pretty optimistic. >It just needs to process transactions accurately and list a bunch of shops across a few countries. Yes, I hear this kind of off-the-cuff assessment frequently from potential clients, and I turn them down if I'm not able to help them see the complexity often involved. After all, opentable is a restaurant reservation system for the entire world. >You'd be amazed how "cheap" it can be to hire a greybeard these days, sometimes less than twice a fresh Stanford grad... This is true, and the open ageism among SV companies makes me incredibly sad.