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I think every few months, I’ll come across an article that laments that the software industry is explicitly and implicitly ageist; that it’s infatuated with youth and has a frat-boy monoculture that does not welcome women or the slightly elderly. I guess young guys come cheap, work hard, and learn fast: all qualities we celebrate in startups. Inevitably, the counterpoint is that the experienced engineer brings with him/her the baggage

As disgusting as it felt, I went out today and sold a bunch of my PS3 games to Gamespot. Then turned around and used that credit to buy a few other games, thus enabling the second-hand gaming market to live for a bit longer. The big news in gaming this month was the unveiling of the Xbox One and the real possibility of no longer having a used gaming market[1]

The year was 2010. We were searching for the next big Facebook app, high off our previous successes. This was when Facebook just released the News Feed, and everything from cute icons to animated fake pets made millions from ad impressions and virtual pet food. People were beginning to understand what “viral” meant in the face of hundreds of millions of users, most of whom encouraged each other to use