People Worth Backing #3: Isaac Squires and Carly Gloge

Isaac Squires is one of the very best examples of what a software developer/entrepreneur should be.  I’ve lost count of how many developers I’ve hired over the years, but only one in several hundred combine the ability to write brilliant, elegant code with the ability to imagine what code he or she ought to write, wrapped up in the ability to see the organizational/commercial implications of what they are writing.  Seriously, as a mere self-taught and admittedly utilitarian coder myself, I can read Isaac’s code like it was English.  He’s the only developer I ever let submit code without extensive documentation.  His stuff is that good.

Isaac has what I wish more people would aspire to:  The ablity to imagine great commercial ideas and then actually build them.  And, if that weren’t enough, he also has the ability to marshal people.  For three years, he convinced a whole community of top developers to help him build the first fully-functional 3d graphics engines in Microsoft’s emerging C#/.net standard…for free.  For anyone who knows code, this is one of the most difficult projects one could take on.

If that weren’t enough, Isaac’s colleague, Carly Gloge is one of those rare graphics artist/Flash developers who has excellent design skills and the ability to write the code herself.  And she is a terrific communicator and teacher for her clients.  Between the two of them, they have everything they need to build anything they can imagine.  And to quote Han Solo, They can imagine quite a bit.

Check out only a tiny slice of Isaac and Carly’s work at WarbWeb.com.

If you ever have a chance to back a Squires/Gloge project, do it.

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