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You've been downvoted to oblivion, but let me add a personal rebuttal for anyone else that finds themselves here: I don't agree at all about "not coming to proper fruition": DTrace was an absurdly outsized success by any metric; Fishworks was if anything too commercially successful (we did nearly $100M of business our first year!); Joyent represented a successful exit to Samsung, etc. I have been extraordinarily blessed to be in the right place at the right time with the right folks several times over -- but never more so than at Oxide: our ambition is absurdly ambitious, but it has never felt more attainable!

All of that said: thank you for keeping your fingers crossed. ;)



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