Mike and I met in SF through mutual friends, and we subsequently continued bumping into each other in the small world that is the tech community. This includes the picture above, standing in line to get into a bar in Austin, TX. In the rain. It turns out I was wearing my Pownce track jacket that night. This was post-acquisition, and Pownce was offline. The jacket is a conversation-starter with the SXSW crowd, who all knew about Pownce and the acquisition. This is especially true if you bump into Mike, who was part of the Pownce team!

Mike is a Python & Django developer, and he builds applications that scale. He also speaks at conferences on the subject.

He recently left Six Apart (who acquired Pownce), where he worked on the TypePad platform. He is now joining a Boulder-based start-up, called SimpleGeo, to help advance and scale their location-based services.

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