Life After StrongLoop – A New Beginning with LunchBadger

In February of this year, I left StrongLoop. Want to know another little known fact? I was never part of IBM. That’s right - I never signed any IBM papers continuing post acquisition and remained the sole StrongLoop employee till the dissolution of our corporate entity.

Why? I didn’t agree with the direction - simply put. And from what I’ve seen so far, I would add “strongly” in front of “disagree”.

I was in a post acquisition mess. It got so bad that I even hired an attorney.

“You should write a book…”, my attorney said.

God forbid that he would ever be able to - being bound by client attorney privilege.

“It’s so sensational, everyone would think it’s fiction.”

Maybe...some day. The truth of the matter is dealing with acquisitions and transitions is not fun, even for a founder - especially when there is a lot riding on the line for your career choices. Unfortunately, it happens more often than not here in Silicon Valley.

On the brighter side, four years later - I learned a lot. Especially, from you my colleagues, who dared to dream of better software that really challenges the status quo and offers simple value by making the day to day life easier for all those who deal in technology.

What I took away from StrongLoop was an unanswered call to action - a challenge of sorts in the form of questions like…

- Can cloud software that solves hard problems still be easy to use? - Digital transformation??? How about the rest of the us who are already born in the cloud and not worried about dinosaur concerns what do we use? - How does the API economy, serverless, composable enterprises transform how we build the businesses of tomorrow?

Today, we launch LunchBadger- https://www.lunchbadger.com. We’re looking for some brave souls willing to indulge an attentive ear and open mind on what APIs could mean for a cloud native world.

Thanks for your time!