Did my company's future hinge on one talented developer?
I like to get to work early on Meeting Mondays, get some work done before the meeting marathon starts: 10 a.m. with the software development team; 11:30 with the COO, CMO, and the Big Boss; afternoon with the data science/strategy development guys.
I’m not sure why everyone likes to start the week with meetings. Personally, I would rather get my teeth into actual research and development work first and then do the talking later. (I mean, everyone knows a meeting is really just an excuse for coffee and doughnuts, right?)
There were a whole lot of things on my agenda that week, but as always, unexpected glitches would end up taking most of my time: a stubborn bug, a tweak gone wrong. One of the software developers was working on an enhanced image recognition project that would take our software to the next level — something very welcome considering the competition out there — but it was a complicated process, and releasing something that wasn’t actually ready would backfire badly.
At exactly ten o’clock, I saved my work and headed to the conference room, where the software development team was waiting for me. Asher, Nachi, and Gideon had joined our team during the last year; they were great guys, and talented ones too. They’d taken my product and really hit the ground running, adding features, tweaking, streamlining, and really just bringing our vision — mine and the Big Boss, Mr. Noach Muller’s — to life.
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