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April Fools

  • Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 1, 2012, 10:45 pm

Yes, yesterday's announcement was an April Fools joke, but I am humbled that enough people were convinced I could sell my company to a Fortune 500 company.

For background, the funny part is Finnix really is a product of Velociraptor Aerospace Dynamics, a sole proprietorship consulting company I set up in 2011. This is mainly to make taxes easier; VAD owns the Finnix domains, pays the bills and takes the donations, at least on paper. But organizationally, it's still mostly a personal project of mine.

(The company name is an in-joke, with a secondary goal of eventually getting Department of Defense contracts based on the name alone. The company logo is a raptor riding a bomb, Slim Pickens style.)

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  1. Bill Laundrie says:
    April 1, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb with a Raptor On It. Thanks for a grin!

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