A man in the Arena

Techcrunch is a place I (MK, gGanttic's interim CEO) visit regularly. I am also subscribed to its daily email. In my value scale, that is the highest mark a web site ever gets.

I recalled his post "A man in the Arena" recently. You should read it, if you want to understand what drives us the team behind gGanttic. We are going to change the world or die trying.

Analogy of a tech entrepreneur to a gladiator is a good one, to me. Following it a bit farther, a gladiator needs armor and it is the money investors provide. gGanttic is pre-seed, meaning we are a Man in the Arena going against the horrors of the world armed with nothing more then our skill. How's that for chutzpahs?

One might assume, judging on how crazy that sounds, we're a typical teenage hackers with lots of time and a readily available basement. And you'd be wrong. We are all industry veterans with 15 years of experience each, held senior positions in software development and marketing, all over 35 y.o., all married with children.

So why all of us, respected professionals, with family obligations, leave behind the tranquility of "normal" life and jump into the Arena?

My personal answer to this, is that at certain point a man who always wanted to change the world understands he can. It is a happy coincidence it happened to us individually at the same time, so that we can do something about it collectively.

P.S. And in Israel, where it doesn't snow and rails not so much, underground garage is a rarity.