October 29, 2013

Video: GDL Root Access: Timing and Market Conditions

Earlier this month, I wrote about how, even in the fast-paced, big opportunity world of Silicon Valley, you don't get any participation medals just for showing up. Sometimes fantastic ideas are ahead of their time, or by virtue of personnel and personality decisions, customer issues, scaling or any manner of factors.

As part of +GDL, the program I own for +Google Developers+Don Dodge and I sat down to talk about some technologies that took a while to catch on, including Sun's Javastation and the Network Computer. Our discussion on Root Access is captured on YouTube and embedded below, taking about 10 minutes.