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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. I’m sure we missed out on a number of great people, but the net effect is that everyone in the team is focused on the same mission.

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Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed

Both Sides of the Table

Do you know how many people I meet these days who are “packaging up money in SPVs (special purpose vehicles),” or raising syndicates or doing secondaries or advising high-net-worth individuals how to get into unicorns? For a fee, of course. I’ve met people straight out of their MBA program doing this. I like that.