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Bryan Cantrill

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Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And then how long do you stay there?

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And then how long do you stay there?

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

search in uh 2004. so i didn't invent that but i got about that era because in so we we obviously go through the dot-com boom and bust and oh yeah i mean in the the bust was a thermonuclear event around here i mean it was very busty it was very deep

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

search in uh 2004. so i didn't invent that but i got about that era because in so we we obviously go through the dot-com boom and bust and oh yeah i mean in the the bust was a thermonuclear event around here i mean it was very busty it was very deep

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And I mean, I was, you remember the, remember that excited home facility on the one-on-one that went from like absolutely nothing went from like wetlands to a, a new construction to full parking lot to empty parking lot with like rocks thrown through the windows to add to abandoned all within like 18 months. Yeah.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And I mean, I was, you remember the, remember that excited home facility on the one-on-one that went from like absolutely nothing went from like wetlands to a, a new construction to full parking lot to empty parking lot with like rocks thrown through the windows to add to abandoned all within like 18 months. Yeah.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And then it was abandoned for a long time before it ultimately became, I think, a Stanford building.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And then it was abandoned for a long time before it ultimately became, I think, a Stanford building.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And did you think about like at that point, do you or do you just know so resolutely? Certainly I knew resolutely then that like this industry is my this is my calling. Like I'm not there's no amount of bust that's going to get me to do something else.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And did you think about like at that point, do you or do you just know so resolutely? Certainly I knew resolutely then that like this industry is my this is my calling. Like I'm not there's no amount of bust that's going to get me to do something else.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Much better during the bust.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Much better during the bust.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

I also just feel like that is such a like snapshot of an age to where it's like having friends help you move is something you grow out of. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, but not awkward. There's a certain age, and there's an age in which it's age-appropriate, and then there's an age in which it is not age-appropriate to get movers.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

I also just feel like that is such a like snapshot of an age to where it's like having friends help you move is something you grow out of. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, but not awkward. There's a certain age, and there's an age in which it's age-appropriate, and then there's an age in which it is not age-appropriate to get movers.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And I would say that our last move was right outside of that age-appropriate window, where I kind of realized that, like, you know what? I think it's time to get movers. Pizza and beer only works. Pizza and beer, it's like, yeah, Tim and Claudio, God bless you for putting in a very hard day of labor for a pretty meager pizza and beer at the end of it. Yeah. Yeah.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And I would say that our last move was right outside of that age-appropriate window, where I kind of realized that, like, you know what? I think it's time to get movers. Pizza and beer only works. Pizza and beer, it's like, yeah, Tim and Claudio, God bless you for putting in a very hard day of labor for a pretty meager pizza and beer at the end of it. Yeah. Yeah.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

So public in August 1999, which is why I remember it.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

So public in August 1999, which is why I remember it.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

My loss carry forward from the dot-com bust, I was living off that for a while. Let's just say that loss carry forward I had for many, many years.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

My loss carry forward from the dot-com bust, I was living off that for a while. Let's just say that loss carry forward I had for many, many years.