Mark Osborne founded a company around 2000 as e-commerce took off, but his coding wasn't good enough. His team pushed him into sales instead, which he experienced as public humiliation. His partner was the skilled developer.
So year 2000 is the year when basically internet goes from a presentation device to an application device, to keep it simple. Right. It's the beginning of e-commerce. It's the beginning of data mining and management through internet. So we started this company just because my partner was an incredibly skilled developer and I was an incredibly mediocre developer. So after like maybe a couple of months, like all my developers came to my office and say, well, we like you very, very much, but we suggest you focus on sales because every time you code something, it costs us more to debug what you did. So that was my first public humiliation by my own team. So we started this company 2000 to 2003. You remember also 2000, really the market was just waiting for another internet development company.
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