ryanburk
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Comment · 2 years ago
Brad Feld had one of the most insightful and helpful blogs, particularly before the golden era of tech/vc twitter and there wasn't much out there for folks not in the club. hope this gives him more time to post more.
Comment · 3 years ago
earlier / dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991863
Comment · 3 years ago
this is announcing the closing of the deal (late last month)
Comment · 3 years ago
a lifetime ago back at Microsoft, Peter Spiro described these folks job expectation as "walk on water". if you wanted to exceed expectations, you had to "leave no wake"...
Comment · 3 years ago
note that they already supported this migration capability to AWS and Azure.
example: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-...
Comment · 5 years ago
is there a reason why a large % of the board turned over in the past ~year, leading in to an IPO?
> Ms. Ford English was appointed to our board of directors in May 2020 and stepped down from our board of directors in May 2021.
> Mr. Hinrichs stepped down from our board of directors in May 2020.
> Mr. Jameel stepped down from our board of directors in July 2021.
> Mr. Kaul stepped down from our board of directors in July 2021.
> Mr. Sheriff stepped down from our board of directors in May 2021.
Comment · 6 years ago
source??
Comment · 6 years ago
agreed - I think the title should be updated to call out the "app" shuts down.
Comment · 7 years ago
presales, consulting, and support.
Comment · 7 years ago
will be interesting to see what they do that goes beyond the acquisition of semmle. it is great to see how quickly they have been able to integrate that work.
Comment · 7 years ago
the tools needed to create WinPE - that shipped in the OEM preinstallation kits (OPK) - did do some work against the original files to make the magic happen. it was mainly around the special registry dB needed to get it to boot, not changing the files themselves. we also did a ton to try to slim it down, originally to get it to fit on a CDROM or RIS/PXE boot. well before USB sticks got larger than CDROMs.
Comment · 7 years ago
there is a lot of WinPE interest in the thread. I was part of the core team that came up with the idea and built it[0] and it is great to see how useful it has been for so many!
I'm happy to answer questions if folks are interested.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Enviro...
Comment · 7 years ago
just a note: this commingling only happens if it is "fulfilled by Amazon" vs buying directly from the 3rd party through Amazon.
previously: vp at godaddy. led cloud platform, infrastructure, authentication, FE, and eCommerce engineering through IPO.
partner at microsoft. worked on product & engineering for consumer services (outlook.com, onedrive, microsoft ID, windows update & store), search, security, and windows core OS.
founder at burkcolabs. advisory: cyber security, seed stage investing, health tech, cloud infrastructure.