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HotAirhttps://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/17/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 06:11:08 -0400When the nerds go marching in<![CDATA[The team had elite and, for tech, senior talent — by which I mean that most of them were in their 30s — from Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, and some of Chicago’s own software companies such as Orbitz and Threadless, where Reed had been CTO. But even these people, maybe *especially* these people, knew enough about technology not to trust it. “I think the Republicans fucked up in the hubris department,” Reed told me. “I know we had the best technology team I’ve ever worked with, but we didn’t know if it would work. I was incredibly confident it would work. I was betting a lot on it. We had time. We had resources. We had done what we thought would work, and it still could have broken. Something could have happened.” …]]>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:50:58 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/17/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in-n97549