Re:Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
by aaronbrethorst on Friday July 25, 2014 @03:10AM
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> I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree.
Funny, they rejected me from even interviewing with a 3.01 GPA and a Computer Science degree because my GPA wasn't high enough. It worked out well, though, and I'm glad I never had to live in Madison.
And I almost certainly got hired there because I actually knew MUMPS from a previous job. Of the developers they hired during my cycle, every one of them was on an H1-B or fresh out of Carnegie Mellon or MIT; meanwhile I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree.
(If you do some light searching, you can find another famous story on TDWTF that I wrote about MUMPS.)