Over the past 16 years, I have been involved in 5 successful startup companies ranging from an energy company, to several .com companies. Now I am focusing all of my attention on creating the tipping point in the sustainability movement by pushing initiatives in government, business and the broader social landscape. 
Many people are curious, what I am doing since I left Powerset. Well, the short story is that I have decided to dedicate myself to what I call the new Green Economy and I am working on several initiatives with other leaders in government and businesses that all fall under the responsibility of non-profit that I am founding called SF Green. 
Well, it has been quite a while since I updated my blog. Since I've been gone, I have started up my next company called Virgance and I wanted to share a little bit of the story with you. Virgance is a company that works with successful small scale activism campaigns and then uses the power of social networks to scale those campaigns to cause much greater change.
Since I started the company, I've experienced something truly amazing that I wanted to share with you. When I decided to leave Powerset to start Virgance, I did so in large part because I just wasn't getting what I wanted out of my job (even though Powerset was an awesome company) - I just wanted something more.. something I could look back on in my life and be super proud of what I did. I wanted to make a difference.
What I didn't know is just how many people feel the same way. For the past 15 years, the Silicon Valley has been a mecca for developers who want to code on the hottest technologies but it has struggled to offer any type of deeper purpose. But now it seems like every developer, every business person and every entrepreneur I meet is searching for something greater. Meaning.
With Virgance, we are building cool technologies and solving really interesting engineering and business challenges - but the difference our product isn't a search engine, it's not an advertising engine and it's not the latest social media widget. Our product doesn't just create good, it IS good. And that gives Virgance a huge advantage over other companies as we are building our team.
Every single person that has touched or is joining Virgance has their own personal story about why they want to work for good, or as our VP of Engineering says...
to "save the world one line of code at a time" - and it is awesome to be a part of it. Coming to work at Virgance is something I desperately look forward to each day and every time I think about it I wonder what took me so long to realize that we all had this humongous unmet need in our jobs.
As Virgance has grown (we are 10 people by the way and tons of volunteers) I have realized, that for me, Virgance is more that a company - it is a movement. One that I hope spawns many more companies that copy what we are doing and share it with as many people as that can. Over the next coming months, I will begin sharing with everyone what we are doing, how it is so different and why it is so important.
that's all for now.