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In about 2006, I ‘bombed’ an interview by telling the CTO that they were going to miss out if they ignored mobile. I’d been involved in building some early mobile sites and thought that this was something that was going to be truly significant quite soon. The CTO of this dev shop held up his feature phone and told me that no way would people ever buy anything on a phone. He didn’t think phones would evolve much more than that.

It quickly became clear that I wouldn’t want to work there and the CTO thought I was such an idiot they didn’t even seen me a rejection email, despite having passed 3 other interviews. Soon after the iPhone was released and mobile became significant.