When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.
EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'