Book Summary of Under The Hood - Commoncog

Amusingly, we moved into a new building after this (fun fact, they blew $15M of their $40M raise on that move, assuming they could raise more whenever they wanted. Unfortunately, this was 2001 and the dot-com era had crashed). In the previous move, they had let us choose our own seats, but after the “Corner of Negativity”, they assigned seating in the next move and split the four of us ringleaders as far apart as they could. Of course, that just meant we recruited more people into our guerrilla movement and the whole thing devolved from there.

Besides the stories, my main remnant of that time is that I learned to play pool quite well. The new building was in downtown SF, with a view of the Bay Bridge, and the pool table was a sunny place with a view in the afternoons. Once it was clear the company was doomed, I started playing an hour or two of pool a day for the year before it finally ran out of money :wink:

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