30 years in software engineering, did the engineering manager thing, founded a consulting business, and I'm currently CTO and co-founder of an e-commerce startup. Picked up the sales and marketing side somewhere along the way too. Been around a while and made most of the mistakes at least once, lol. That said, there's a LOT for me to learn in here. Some of this is a genuinely new direction for me, and I've always believed the smartest move is to put yourself in a room with people who are further down the road than you are. That's exactly why I came, to learn from the people who've already done it and pitch in wherever I'm useful