Rob Walling

Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur who has started six companies (five of them bootstrapped). He runs MicroConf, the original community for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and TinySeed, a category-leading accelerator for B2B SaaS. He has invested in more than 200 startups.

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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)

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I once thought I had traveled a unique career path. Graduating from college with a degree in computer engineering and electrical engineering I was on fire to be a manager. My dad had worked for the same electrical contractor for 30-something years and I knew everyone from the Chairman of the Board d