How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
We had Tom Preston-Werner pinch-hit for Chris Wanstrath at RubyFringe, and his talk was a big hit. Tom was working on the slightly vapourous Powerset when he and Chris started hacking on the game-changing GitHub a year ago. Here’s an InfoQ interview with Tom at RubyFringe.
In the article linked above, he talked about how as a family man approaching 30 (apparently this is old in software) he decided to choose adventure over stability and follow the crazy instead of the money. Kudos for following your heart, Tom. You rule!
However, I have a serious beef:
Dude, you’re worth a lot more than “300k over three years plus salary”.
Just sayin’.