Old Developers Just Don't Get it. Yes They Do. Not They Don't

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Built and sold software from a 15-year company that brings in $6 million revenue and serves 500 clients with 30 employees, then open-sources that product as open source Tendenci to seed a community. Claims that younger engineers use GitHub, ship faster with less formal design patterns, and that open-sourcing trained contributors ahead of time. Reports 1.2 million users adoption and frames the shift as turning proprietary code into community-driven nonprofit software.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:17THE OLD GUY
3. 0:47HOW DO I DO IT?
4. 1:04GEN X DEMOGRAPHIC
5. 1:19MILLENNIAL DEMOGRAPHIC
6. 1:52ARE YOU SERIOUS OLD MAN?
7. 2:16HOW OLD ARE YOU?
8. 2:32OLD VS. YOUNG DEMOGRAPHICS
9. 3:02GEN X BUY IN
10. 3:20MILLENNIAL BUY IN
11. 3:43COME TOGETHER TO CREATE
12. 4:11RELEASED ON OPEN SOURCE

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