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today I go home, sleep for aprox. 3.5 hours, get up, go to car show, take pics/talk shit, come home, slep another 4 hours, then back here tonight for work. Awesome.
Originally posted by anth
Lucky they didn't come into your house and disrespect your whole family.
I met both Carl Page and Larry Page at a party hosted by a Stanford friend of mine in 1998. Carl gave me his card for eGroups and said "we're hiring". Larry gave me his card for Google—a flimsy bit of paper obviously printed by bubble jet—and said "we're hiring".
I said, "Nah, who needs another search engine?" and went to graduate school.
So when I was a kid, my dad and my two brothers managed one of the most popular BBSs in the US. We weren't that big a board, but we had a huge write-up in PC magazine and started getting calls from all over the world. It was actually a lot of fun. For those who actually remember BBSs it was Soquel BBS. Anyways we used software called TomCat which was brand new and very cutting edge. So we got cool business offers from all over. I remember getting one of the first production CD ROMs, for free in exchange for advertising, as well as an HP laser printer. These cost several thousand each. Anyway, we would get asked by a lot of companies to put games they made up on the site. Well one of the companies that always had a good game to run became very good friends with my father, my brother and me. They were dinky little text type games but always really well done. My father who had worked in city planning all his life was offered a job by them to be the head of marketing and sales and was also offered a portion of the company if he would come aboard. There really wasn't any pay to speak of. By that time my dad thought he was too old to be in the tech industry and to do a startup like that.
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