The two held regular meetings at the Lefthand Brewery and hit it off immediately. But instead of Spiers coming to work for Chambers, he turned the whole thing around by presenting Chambers with a prototype of Sawtooth, showing he was way ahead of anything else on the market.
Chambers saw the potential, hired a new management team for Tango, then quit to start up Lefthand Networks (he remains on the Tango board). Lefthand now has 35 employees assembled from the major storage and networking companies. (Even the best of startups steal people. The worst steal ideas.)
[Lefthand] will be one of the first that has demonstrable product and, as such, may have an advantage with the OEMs, says Duplessie. If they can keep out of the brewery long enough. Chambers told Byte and Switch, We can still be found down there holding strategy meetings from time to time.
Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch http://www.byteandswitch.com
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