Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
This is honestly quite a trip to read (I&#x27;m the Benjamin Pollack in the movie). I did want to make two small corrections, though:<p><pre><code>    In one scene, she’s being interviewed on her birthday. Nobody remembered,
    so she had to buy herself a birthday hat. While she’s explaining this to the
    camera, one of her co-workers shushes her for making too much noise. On her
    birthday!
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No, this coworker right here was starting to say &quot;shit fuck shit dammit&quot; on camera as he discovered that a stale precompiled header was getting picked up on the build box and then realized Lerone was rolling, so you&#x27;re hearing me halt myself before saying a pile of profanity on film. In retrospect, Liz talking about her birthday and me suddenly cussing like a drunk sailor would&#x27;ve been a much better take. I regret the error.<p><pre><code>    [Benjamin Pollack] seems to have never caught the startup bug, mainly working
    at larger, more established companies.
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I worked at Fog Creek (max ~60 employees during my tenure, usually more like 40) from 2005 to 2014, Khan Academy (~120 if you count contractors) from 2015 to 2017, Spreedly (~40) from 2017 to 2018, and Bakpax (there were a dozen of us) from 2018 to 2021 (we got acquired, I wanted to <i>stay at startups</i>, so I didn&#x27;t stay once we were bought), and another small startup briefly after <i>that</i> before settling at The Knot Worldwide. Yes, I&#x27;m currently at a very large company (~6500), but I&#x27;m a bit confused at how you&#x27;d come up with that summary of my career.<p>I honestly really enjoyed the article, though, and neither of these are exactly big errors; just some extra color I wanted to provide.<p><i>[Edit: I&#x27;m also happy to answer any questions anyone has about the movie or about that time at Fog Creek.]</i>