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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. We had lamp shades on our heads, tequila in our glasses, loud music and perhaps too much sand, and burning men, and art exhibits and tres commas.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. In a world of hard-to-come-up-with brand names, I love that name. It allow you to grow and scale as required, which is the promise of the crowd. I thought, what are we going to do?