Matt was always deep in 3D printing, and he had a problem he could not stop thinking about: getting a perfect first layer, every time, on any bed. Every probe on the market solved it mechanically, ...

For the last few years of running my company, I signed customer support emails as Andrew. Andrew is not my name. I picked it because customers were kinder to Andrew than they were to Laura. Andrew...

MbientLab is closing. Not dramatically, and not because anything went wrong. It is closing the way most small companies end, quietly, after everyone involved has slowly gotten on with their lives a...

This one is still going, so this is only the first year of it. I was on my way out of Unit21 in a layoff and already interviewing when Gradle came up on LinkedIn. They wanted someone who could wri...

I found the job browsing LinkedIn, looking for things to do that were not software development. Writing was not the first thing that came to mind. But I kept thinking about everything I had been d...

I left Intel at the end of 2012 without much of a plan, which turned out to be the right amount of plan. San Francisco was at its loudest. People in costumes outside VC offices, meetups worth goin...

It was the end of my junior year at Purdue, studying electrical engineering, and the start of the summer of 2008. I was fortunate enough to spend that as an intern on Intel’s post-silicon validatio...