What’s it like to work at blist? Well, for comparison, my wife is an engineer at Google, so we can share our impressions of working at blist versus Google: * At Google, you play video games and foosball for entertainment. * At blist, Kevin tells you jokes. * At Google Seattle, you work in Fremont, [...]

One of the most important jobs of a founding entrepreneur is building the team with incredibly talented individuals. An interesting concern for the candidate considering joining a startup is the perception of risk. “Don’t most startups fail?” The short answer is yes. But it doesn’t matter nearly as much as you think. Here’s why. Let’s [...]

The press tries to stir up the notion that there’s an ongoing competition between big software companies (Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Google, et al) and startups for the limited pool of software engineering talent. While it’s true that good software engineers are needed by both mature and fledgling software companies, there’s such a distinction between the [...]