Well, it has been quite a while since I updated my blog.  Since I've been gone, I have started up my next company called Virgance and I wanted to share a little bit of the story with you.  Virgance is a company that works with successful small scale activism campaigns and then uses the power of social networks to scale those campaigns to cause much greater change.

Since I started the company, I've experienced something truly amazing that I wanted to share with you.  When I decided to leave Powerset to start Virgance, I did so in large part because I just wasn't getting what I wanted out of my job (even though Powerset was an awesome company) - I just wanted something more.. something I could look back on in my life and be super proud of what I did.  I wanted to make a difference.

What I didn't know is just how many people feel the same way.  For the past 15 years, the Silicon Valley has been a mecca for developers who want to code on the hottest technologies but it has struggled to offer any type of deeper purpose.  But now it seems like every developer, every business person and every entrepreneur I meet is searching for something greater.  Meaning.

With Virgance, we are building cool technologies and solving really interesting engineering and business challenges - but the difference our product isn't a search engine, it's not an advertising engine and it's not the latest social media widget.  Our product doesn't just create good, it IS good.  And that gives Virgance a huge advantage over other companies as we are building our team. 

Every single person that has touched or is joining Virgance has their own personal story about why they want to work for good, or as our VP of Engineering says...