The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development.
Diego Basch
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
There are also projects that managed to survive only because they had the backing of an already successful company, flush with cash. Not many people know the story of what would become one of the most widely used software products ever. Hunt, who had single-handedly written the first version of PC Word, became the project manager.
Software By Rob
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. The following is a guest article by Dave Rodenbaugh of Lessons of Failure.
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