Come for the Ride!

It’s not easy to find a good team that you know you can trust to build your business on. Early in our companies creation, we had a few discussions that developers have a mindset (I’ve felt this before in my past) that we are the center of any computer / online based startup. Without our coding ability, the company is nothing. We’re irreplaceable and how dare you question our methods for coding? I’m recently realizing that developers are a, for the most part, a unique group of people. They are used to doing things their own way. They often program for their own enjoyment and answer only to themselves for a majority of their coding career (when younger). They have only themselves to rely upon for learning all their programming skills and thus they aren’t used to being led by others.

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Now that I have the luxury of staying up late and waking up at 10, I was actually able to watch NBC last night when Jay and Conan came back for the first time since the writers’ strike. The shows were pretty good if not better than average and I gotta say, I wasn’t surprised.

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I’m not sure if most developers and entrepreneurs operate the same way as I do, but when I’m in true startup mode, I tend to shut off most if not all distractions. For me, this means no TV during the day, no nights out on the weekends, no early nights before 1am and basically zero fun during the early (development) sprint. Though it’s not a big deal for me, I basically skipped the holidays this year too.

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The very last thing my ex-employer said to me before walking out the door was “Your health insurance will run out at the end of the month. You must tell us before then if you want to continue your coverage on COBRA.”

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If you haven’t noticed in recent times, companies are messing up more, apologizing more and are coming out more into the public that make them appear more human than being some large, evil corporate entity. I may not know who the owners of Walmart, Waffle House, Publix or Sears are, but I can put a human face to many of the others such as Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Google, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

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