Back To My Roots
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Back To My Roots
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#2Whenever I read things like this, my immediate reaction is "How do these people have so much money to travel around the world doing nothing-in-particular for two years?"
Are there just a lot of really rich people out there? Or am I over-cautious and they're operating without a safety net?
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#3Whenever I read things like this, my immediate reaction is "How do these people have so much money to travel around the world doing nothing-in-particular for two years?" Are there just a lot of really rich people out there? Or am I over-cautious and they're operating without a safety net?
API lead and one of the first employees at Twitter. CTO for Bank Simple. Both of these jobs should've left a bit of a financial cushion. (In fact, he mentions that Twitter paid off so he doesn't ever need to work again)
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#4Whenever I read things like this, my immediate reaction is "How do these people have so much money to travel around the world doing nothing-in-particular for two years?" Are there just a lot of really rich people out there? Or am I over-cautious and they're operating without a safety net?
From the article:
To make things a little more surreal: a few weeks after I turned 30 this past October, Twitter went public, confirming that I never need to work again. (I’m still getting my head around that.)
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#6This is similar to what I would do in the same situation. If I didn't need the income of my day job, I'd spend the time on public service or charity of some sort. I can't see myself spending money like a trust fund dilettante nor funding yet another startup.
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#8For all their hand-wringing over the healthcare.gov debacle you'd think at least one of these DoBT guys would have gone in to help fix it. That probably would have gotten in the way of fund-raising, though.
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#9For all their hand-wringing over the healthcare.gov debacle you'd think at least one of these DoBT guys would have gone in to help fix it. That probably would have gotten in the way of fund-raising, though.
We did the best we could, and tried to help on it as much as the law would allow. And still do. But one cannot simply volunteer to help the government do things, as the federal advisory committee act prohibits government from accepting free advice or work (you can infer why).
Not sure what you mean about fundraising though, as we don't raise money (we have received a grant for our operations from the Knight Foundation, but aren't looking to raise any VC money).
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#10I've been hacking around with DOBT's formbuilder.js, and they seem like a great team. Hope the new position suits you well!