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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

socalTECH

So, we put something together, and put in some money, and literally the next day I was out to breakfast with Josh Roth, the former CTO of Rent.com and NTI Group, and Josh was also looking for something to do. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you? No Dave S. =