6th
What else would you be doing?
My friend Turbo asked me this today. 你不是做網路公司的話，你會想做什麼？ Translated: If you weren’t doing a software company, what would you be doing?
I would be starting a cool coffee shop.
Since I discovered Starbucks when I was in 7th or 8th grade, I’ve loved going to coffee shops with my laptop and getting myself totally wired on Wi-Fi plus an artistically caffeinated drink (Red Bulls, Monsters, and other monstrous drinks aren’t included under this definition btw).
In high school, I was very active in my church youth group — praying, organizing events, speaking, music, etc. — even though of those none were that “successful” apparently. But one of the non spiritual activities I initiated actually succeeded — starting a cafe shop at the corner of our church auditorium. We bought stuff from Costco and re-sold it to the right crowd and the right time/place at a higher price (which is what I used to do as a ten year old dealing candy on the playground). Anyways, I really enjoyed setting that up, seeing people gather around drinks in a cool setting, and seeing money come in.
What do I do for fun? Go to a cafe and surf the web. So if I’m not building the web, I want to be building the cafe. Both of them contain community for me — whether social networking online around photos or face to face around some good drinks.
Maybe in the future I can build a coffee shop empire. With so many changes in society, coffee shops have a lot of room to get up to speed.
Alright… back to making software…
Dave
