15 years ago, to start business that relied on servers, databases, and distributed computing, with built in monitoring, redundancy, fail-safes and logging, you would have needed a staff of IT professionals. Today, I just built a service launched on Heroku. Every part is built and monitored by an outsourced team of professionals. All I do [...]
When my father was raising money for BeFree, he found himself in a tough situation: Michael Dell was on the phone, asking to invest in an already oversubscribed round. There were two choices: tell Michael Dell “no,” or cut back the other investors. My father chose the latter, hoping to leverage the relationship to get [...]
My father was looking to hire a new employee for his business Microamerica. The interview was scheduled for really early in the morning, so my father was the only one in the office. This also meant that my father’s car was the only one in the parking lot; or, at least, that is what Mr. [...]