I had an exit and chose to be someone else's CTO for longer than I ran my own company. Founding was never about owning the company.

Open source activity in June 2026: PRs, reviews, issues, comments across multiple repositories.

The Kleppmann move-op paper proves convergence. It says nothing about markdown, two clients, iCloud Drive, vim, or a user hitting Enter while a peer writes. I built outl on top of that paper. Here is everything between the proof and a working sync.

The shock from big tech to startup isn't a personal failure. It's structural. Mintzberg explained why fifty years ago.