Biznik Blog

Lara and I walked in to Office Nomads about 11:45 this morning, and found the place packed with about 50 people drinking mimosas, eating donuts and intently watching a big screen TV. Aretha Franklin was belting out, in her big diva voice, a tribute to the next president of the United States. We all went crazy when Barack Hussein Obama took the oath, and gave his speech. These words were unforgettable to me:

“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”

Wow.

How do you top that? Well, we gave it a shot by bringing it home right away. No messing around here, people! We got work to do! It was my distinct honor, today, to officially welcome Andrew Lippert as Biznik’s first CTO. Share the moment with me, will you, as I hold out a copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers, and say, “Repeat after me: I, Andrew Carl Lippert, do solemnly swear…”

Expect great things soon.