Oh man, I worked for a long time on the east coast in industries that didn't give me much exposure to startups during the 90s-00s, so one day I met an ex-Google developer at a meetup who dropped into the conversation that he once worked for Google and then waited for me to be impressed. It was a long awkward wait because I didn't realize at the time that that was supposed to impress me, and instead just said something like "oh cool" and the conversation just abruptly stopped in the weirdest way you can imagine.
Oh man, I worked for a long time on the east coast in industries that didn't give me much exposure to startups during the 90s-00s, so one day I met an ex-Google developer at a meetup who dropped into the conversation that he once worked for Google and then waited for me to be impressed. It was a long awkward wait because I didn't realize at the time that that was supposed to impress me, and instead just said something like "oh cool" and the conversation just abruptly stopped in the weirdest way you can imagine.