Wednesday, November 6, 2013

In our own backyard

Sometimes you go casting a wide net only to find what you look for in your own backyard.

We where in the need of a good developer that had experience in OpenWRT, a Linux-based software that can be used on a range of routers. Starting with Google, this lead us to a Master Thesis written about this in the southern part of Norway some months ago. Then talking to the one writing this paper then lead us to yet another person that he had used as an advisor.

We then engaged in conversations with this person, and understood that this might be the right guy for us. And where was he based? In the room next to us in StartupLab here in Oslo.

I could have literary jumped on top of my desk, shouted ”Any OpenWRT-knowledge here?” and he would have been able to answer.

Employee No. 1 is about to get hired!