ABSTRACT
In that time, I built two businesses from the ground up. I walked away from one when it ceased to be fun anymore and was fired by a board controlled by venture capitalists at the other, right as I was becoming convinced the long-awaited potential of technology-that which we, as an industry, had been long promising in glossy marketing campaigns for years-was about to be realized. The irony of the timing of that moment did not escape me.
