The only gay in the bro-village
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Probably not, but it sure feels like it sometimes.I was a PR guy with some #tech skills before I became a tech guy with some PR skills. Its been an interesting transition. The world of marketing has been comfortable with the gays for quite a while now and they like what we’ve done with the place. Tech? Hmm, not quite yet.Recently, I was doing a bit of soft recruiting for my startup at a JS meetup and was explaining to a couple of guys how my cofounder (who is a lady’s man, btw) and I are determined to get to know people before we take new team members on board, at what is basically the ground floor. We want to make sure the team we build is with us for the long run. I said, “it’s kind of like dating” when describing our recruitment process, which pretty much made the next, final five minutes (...)