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April 14, 2005
Jambo is already working
Even though our install base of Jambo software is still (relatively) small, the larger Jambo concept is hard at work making interesting connections for us all over the world. I'm fascinated with how it has brought me back in touch with people that I had wanted to find, but never expected to see again.
A long lost friend from college contacted me through info@jambo.net when he saw our Forbes article. Another lost friend I'm meeting with later this morning and I haven't seen in 20 years! (I'm not that old...) The last time I saw him, we were little kids on the tennis court, and he found us via our network of angel investors. Charles and I each have 10 or so stories like this of connecting and re-connecting through Jambo.
Even the story of Jambo itself has many amazing connections in it. Charles and I would have missed the opportunity to start this company if I had not had the same name as my dad. In a chance meeting, Charles met a "Jim Young" from Dallas and saw enough of a connection to ask him if he had a son that was in Africa over 10 years ago. Charles and I were able to reconnect from our NOLS program, and now we have signed a partnership with them!
The world works in very strange ways, and I'm looking forward to Jambo continuing to accellerate the oddity and the connections!
Posted by Jim at April 14, 2005 09:43 AM
Comments
I've had many similar occasions of serendipity in my networking. So strange then that I heard of Jambo through a traditional job posting on a mailing list. Well, I guess it's not always about who you know. But usually it is. :-)
Posted by: Danny at April 15, 2005 10:46 AM