First off, I love this kind of story.
Let’s go back in time to 2009. Brian Acton was an accomplished programmer who’d checked the box with stints at both Apple and Yahoo.
Now he was looking for work–and he was coming up short. His Twitter feed tells the tale.
Acton had been the 44th employee at Yahoo, but he’d lost millions of his dot-com fortune when the bubble burst in 2000. Despite the bright-sided nature of his Tweets, the 37-year-old didn’t know what was next.
He toyed with a startup idea, but it wasn’t going anywhere. And as Marc Cenedella–founder of The Ladders, and more recently, Knowzen–wrote on Medium a few days ago, Acton…
