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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

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The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of.

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Another Day, Another Patent Troll

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In his 2003 letter to shareholders, Warren Buffet famously called derivatives, “” financial weapons of mass destruction ” that could harm not only their buyers and sellers, but the whole economic system. “