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The Fall of Trada (2019)

by cdoxsey on 1/21/20, 12:55 PM with 4 comments

• by netsectoday on 1/22/20, 3:23 PM

  I went for an interview there in 2010 and it was the most absurd experience. I walked into a dimly lit open gymnasium with a running track and desks sprawled all over with people working, while voices echoed off the walls. The CEO had a desk with a giant life-sized horse standing over it. The developer who interviewed me was sad. I asked him how it was working there and his response was "they just throw things at me and then leave me alone, we're also digging ourselves out of a hole one developer put us in". Also, no one could really explain what the company did. I declined their offer.

  > I mean, just look across the street at Gnip - another Boulder startup...

  So I had experience consuming their pipeline and Gnip had a real product. Also, the people running Gnip are still in downtown boulder running the Cognizant office. They are very competent.

• by creeble on 1/22/20, 3:44 PM

  Well-told story.

  I keep waiting for the decline and fall of online advertising, and all it does is keep going up.