[bmccormack]

Back in 2005, Fog Creek produced a documentary called "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks", about their internship program. There are lots of great interviews in there, including Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston from the early days of Y Combinator (as well as interviews with Aaron Schwartz, Alexis Ohanian, and Steve Huffman).

https://youtu.be/0NRL7YsXjSg?t=2946

[Alex3917]

This is amazing. Even as someone who has been vaguely around for a while (e.g. attended the first couple Startup School events), it's easy to forget that this is how it was. It really puts a lot of things in context.

[theparanoid]

This was around the nadir of tech in general. The dotcom crash was only a few years earlier.

[swampthinker]

Holy crap I recognize PG's old house, I used to live a block away! That's crazy!

Me and my dad would always talk shit about it though, horrible for insulation purposes. Looks great though.

[wdr1]

Thanks for sharing this!

I remember reading Joel talking about it in his blog, but never knew it was on YouTube!

[bmccormack]

The entire 6-DVD Making Better Software series, which was produced after Aardvark'd, is now free on YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXZ75Ds5vOs&list=PLXOSex6PRP...

I remember when Fog Creek first announced that series and it cost a jillion dollars. A Fog Creek sales rep at the Fog Creek World Tour in 2010 in Atlanta gave me an "extra" copy of the DVD set and I felt like I had stolen something.

[runevault]

I have the DVD from when they sold it back when, every time I see the thing it feels weird realizing how LONG ago it was.

[peternicky]

Thanks for posting this!

[pouta]

Thanks for the share!