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Company history and concrete outcomes matter: a Rails consultancy that starts with a PayPal wrapper (VPayPal gem), builds a paid internal training platform (VTApp), grows to 60 developers with ~30 Rails contributors, and lands clients like Ideeli and WeWork. Open‑source work yields Spree extensions and a Spree premium partnership; a Nigerian e‑commerce site (Konga) ships in two months and its custom features become reusable gems. Numbers of accepted patches (2162 by one contributor) and partner deals validate the approach.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 1:04About Me
- 5:23Founding VinSol
- 10:54RailsConf Europe 2006
- 12:15First Ruby Gem
- 12:38Working with Rails - Hackfest
- 13:39RubyFringe 2008
- 15:28VTApp
- 22:25WeWork: Property Management
- 23:15GreyLock Rails CMS
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