This is honestly quite a trip to read (I'm the Benjamin Pollack in the movie). I did want to make two small corrections, though:
In one scene, she’s being interviewed on her birthday. Nobody remembered,
so she had to buy herself a birthday hat. While she’s explaining this to the
camera, one of her co-workers shushes her for making too much noise. On her
birthday!
No, this coworker right here was starting to say "shit fuck shit dammit" on camera as he discovered that a stale precompiled header was getting picked up on the build box and then realized Lerone was rolling, so you're hearing me halt myself before saying a pile of profanity on film. In retrospect, Liz talking about her birthday and me suddenly cussing like a drunk sailor would've been a much better take. I regret the error.
[Benjamin Pollack] seems to have never caught the startup bug, mainly working
at larger, more established companies.
I worked at Fog Creek (max ~60 employees during my tenure, usually more like 40) from 2005 to 2014, Khan Academy (~120 if you count contractors) from 2015 to 2017, Spreedly (~40) from 2017 to 2018, and Bakpax (there were a dozen of us) from 2018 to 2021 (we got acquired, I wanted to
stay at startups, so I didn't stay once we were bought), and another small startup briefly after
that before settling at The Knot Worldwide. Yes, I'm currently at a very large company (~6500), but I'm a bit confused at how you'd come up with that summary of my career.
I honestly really enjoyed the article, though, and neither of these are exactly big errors; just some extra color I wanted to provide.
[Edit: I'm also happy to answer any questions anyone has about the movie or about that time at Fog Creek.]
I honestly really enjoyed the article, though, and neither of these are exactly big errors; just some extra color I wanted to provide.
[Edit: I'm also happy to answer any questions anyone has about the movie or about that time at Fog Creek.]