Jimmy Jacobson Talks About Wedgies, The White House, and Social Polling

Jimmy Jacobson Talks About Wedgies, The White House, and Social Polling

Wedgies co-founder, Jimmy Jacobson, gets a few things out the way at the start of the podcast.

1. Naming the social-polling company he founded Wedgies was not the result of losing a bet

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3. While the company is based in Las Vegas, they do not operate out of a casino

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5. Jimmy and his fellow co-founder bought the domain Wedgies.com fair and square…from a guy right before he went to jail for something unrelated to the sale of the domain (which is “a clean domain” as Jimmy maintains)

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7. If you’re not a DevOps specalist, hold on to your horses when you migrate from Heroku to AWS to scale for The White House’s traffic when they select you to power their State Of The Union live polling.

 
 
Jimmy is talking at this year’s SIGNAL conference about how mentorship in tech incredibly important – even if it means talking about Minecraft with a bunch of 7-year-olds.