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Fire in the Hole! Another New Gig for Bob

Until leaving PBS at the end of 2008 I could claim I had been fired from every job I ever held, which isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds. Leaving PBS after 11 years broke that pattern, but not for long. Now I have been fired from Home-Account, my mortgage startup. How does one found a company and then get fired from it? That’s easy: you get in a fight with the CEO. At least that’s how I tend to do it.

These things happen all the time in startups where emotions nearly always run high and the CEO (not me)  wins. That’s the case here, so life goes on. And, as I […]

By Robert X. Cringely|March 3rd, 2010|2010, Business|75 Comments
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So THAT’S Why He’s So Interested in Mortgages!

Yesterday morning in Palm Desert, CA a number of technology startup companies were shown to the public for the first time at the DEMO Conference.  One of these new companies was an Internet mortgage startup called home-account.com (don’t forget the dash).  Home-Account was born in my kitchen in Charleston just over a year ago – long before any of us realized the housing crisis was going to be as bad as it has become.  Just to be clear, I am a co-founder and shareholder in Home-Account.com.

People with ideas are always seeking me out.  In this case my visitor was a mortgage broker from Charlotte, NC. He knew that lenders weren’t helping homeowners own their homes as quickly as they might.  […]

By Robert X. Cringely|March 3rd, 2009|Uncategorized|98 Comments
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