Give me a room full of people who are looking for something to do and I will make sure that everyone has something to do. If I could get somebody else to do that, I will get somebody else to do that. I can handle the other stuff but it’s not my native competence. I’m much more interesting and useful at the beginning. They are different orientations and personalities. Some people are good at the middle parts and at the end.
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I discovered as I was hiring people for Xigo, they’re all software engineers but some people are good at the beginning parts of a project. That’s coming back to exactly why I started. If you have somebody who can think about what’s the right thing to build at the right time, what fits together, what’s going to sell, and what makes sense. A lot of them love that because they don’t know what to build.
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The closest I’ve come is send an email to somebody and they write some code so it’s easier. I could look at it and say, “That was better or whatever.” That was a revelation when I found out that I could do that.įor me, I don’t write any code. I began to view it as instead of I had to write all this stuff myself, I could find somebody who could help me do it and then tell them about it. I was like, “I’ll do that.” It turns out it was fun and I was good at it. When I started that company, I didn’t care about the idea of growing an organization or managing engineers. Why wouldn’t you? You asked me what my new ideal job was. Jeremy: A lot of people don’t even do that. For me, I always steered toward whatever the coolest project I could find at any given moment was, and I worked on that. These weren’t important but the experience of that, and learning about those industries, the tools and all those things led to being able to do other projects. I built websites for car dealerships and bed and breakfasts in the ‘90s. Pablos: I’ve worked on projects that in and of themselves didn’t have important world-changing merit. Katia Capprelli, the former Italian race car engineer also joined us for this conversation. I hope you have a good time listening to two friends have a long chat. He’s a guy who’s built massively multiplayer online games, automated trading systems, cryptographic systems and a wide variety of other things. He’s learned to play the shakuhachi and the didgeridoo. Also some of Jeremy’s other interests in addition to Aikido, archery, Japanese and Western style, languages like Japanese, French, Mandarin, Spanish, and Latin. In the last half we talk about artificial intelligence, where it came from and where it’s going. Jeremy had a super interesting career back at Apple in the Advanced Technology Group back in the nineties when there was really interesting things going on there and he invented some cool technology. And so we got to spend a couple of hours talking, I’d say about the first half of this is about our backgrounds, his background growing up with computers, how he got into it, how he learned the things he did. There’s not a lot of people who are as friendly as he is and with his diverse interests. Jeremy and I became great friends there and have been friends ever since. We were a victim of a sock puppet attack ended up having to shut down the company. And and I ended up going to work for Jeremy and though the company, unfortunately didn’t work out and got shut down in the.com bubble, we still had amazing actual technology and actual customers and actual revenue, and we were doing great. Xigo was trying to do in the year 2000, essentially artificial intelligence to trade on the stock market. Jeremy had started a company with his brother and another friend of ours in San Francisco called Xigo. We were training with with Frank Doran, who at the time, was one of the senior Aikido instructors in America. I had the good fortune of meeting Jeremy training Aikido back in the nineties. But but also I think it is important to look for the things that worked like what were the things in our backgrounds that got us good at something? And what is it that turned us into hackers and what is it that made us learn to think differently? And so anyway, today we have Jeremy Bornstein who is one of my all time favorite people. And sometimes it’s just learning that there are parallel experiences that led us into very technical careers. One of the things I really like to be able to do is go track down some of the friends that I’ve made over the years who have grown up with technology and grew up with computers as kids hackers, computer programmers, people who eventually became engineers and just pick apart their experience.Ī lot of us had similar experiences and I think there’s a lot that can be learned from that.
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