Tag: Founder
What Matters
I was a pack rat, and so I had almost every single email I had sent and received. I had almost all of the code that I, ...Stopping...
I lived my life in a different order from most people. I started my own company when I was 18. I built my most high pro...What's a Circuit Breaker?
I'd not been interviewed very often. For my first job, sure, I sent around my CV to a bunch of places and did a bunch o...Holding the Fort
For many years, I loved my job. I was working on a production system that saw tens of thousands of orders across the wo...I Chose to Keep Going
In 2008, we all watched Pivotal crash and burn. They'd taken a year and nearly £900k to build a new ticketing system fo...Always On
I knew as soon as my phone rang what it was about. It was the same every time. I would drag myself up to answer the ph...What we Carried
I started my company in 2000. I was 18. I built megabus.com in 2003. I was 21. It started off small, and little by lit...Whatcha Thinking?
I loved working on megabus. I was in love with it. My girlfriend at the time had a habit of asking what I was thinking ...