Good engineers are worth their weight in heroin, only harder to find on the street. Start-ups six months ago were commonly giving away Apple products in exchange for a software engineer, and have now are offering large cash rewards for referrals.
My big sister's friend, founder of Doostang, has a new project called PulseJFK. He's looking for a "shit hot" front end engineer and willing to drop some serious dinero. Last week he texts me about it.
"Yo, want $1000? Find me a shit hot front end engineer for pulsejfk."
Two days later: "we need a front end. Ill give u 2k."
"Yo, want $1000? Find me a shit hot front end engineer for pulsejfk."
Two days later: "we need a front end. Ill give u 2k."
He's willing to do whatever it takes. Front-end or back-end, entrepreneurs and CEOs are bending over and willing to pay whoever will give them the goods.
In the mean time, Box.net, an online file sharing company, is trying to keep up with its rapid growth. They are willing to shell out $2,000 in cash, or Subway sandwiches, to the person who delivers them an engineer. My software engineer friend Tomas, who posted this offer on Facebook, spends late nights building the Box when he's not playing Rock Band and probably could use some scaling reinforcements. Don't bother poaching him, he'd never break up the band.
In the mean time, Box.net, an online file sharing company, is trying to keep up with its rapid growth. They are willing to shell out $2,000 in cash, or Subway sandwiches, to the person who delivers them an engineer. My software engineer friend Tomas, who posted this offer on Facebook, spends late nights building the Box when he's not playing Rock Band and probably could use some scaling reinforcements. Don't bother poaching him, he'd never break up the band.
Back in January, the CEO of Thread.com offered a new iPad to the person who hooked him up with a gnarly software engineer. Meebo, which allows users to master their IM universe from a single point of command, now is offering $5,000 for an engineer captured alive! Soon, even large sums of cash won't be enough, you'll probably have to offer a kidney, or perhaps your first born child.
Other Points of Interest
DARPA Network Challenge:
Social Network Used to Find 10 Red Balloons (MIT won $40,000 cash prize)
Existentialist moment:
Watch this (complete version available on Itunes): Stephen Hawking- "The Story of Everything"
Cool beats throughout time
Germany, 1980. Deadmau5 was still in the womb.
Party like it's 1999. It's all about the orange jackets.
Miami, Ultra Fest 2010. My best friend went and submitted this.
San Francisco, May 22, 2010. Want tickets, but will be in NYC at the TC Disrupt conference, having lunch at the NYT cafeteria, and most importantly visiting Grandma and Grandpa Valmis and big sis!
PS: Where did groups go on Facebook?
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