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Jeff Sandquist: Skateboarding, Channel 9 and Life at Microsoft

Jeff Sandquist — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:29:52 GMT

Rory, in one of his final interviews for Channel 9 turned around the camera and interviewed me (Jeff :-)) for Channel 9.

Here's the description Rory wrote for this piece:

Jeff Sandquist was there at the beginning. He has been behind the scenes at Channel 9 for years. He was part of the initial crew and has had a tremendous impact on the development of the site ever since. Oddly, despite his core involvement, Jeff has never before done a Channel 9 interview. Here, we get to talk to him just after he's come back from taking several months off, and he's in a very, very good mood :)

So long, Adam Kinney...

Rory — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:26:00 GMT

Just as you need someone behind the scenes to articulate the motions of a Muppet^TM for the screen, you also need someone to sit behind a web site and get it to do stuff.

Adam Kinney was such a man (for the web thing - he has not, to my knowledge, except possibly at a few parties, ever been in control of a Muppet^TM).

Adam toiled away for years in the Channel 9 boiler room, knocking pipes with his cyberwrench and other tools, all of which begin with "cyber" to indicate that I'm not really talking about a boiler room. It's a metaphor.

And now he's going. Not very far since his new job leaves him in the same building, in the same office, and so only about ten feet from where I sit, but now it feels like there's a great distance between us.

This is Adam's farewell.

We talked about life as a Channel 9 geek, life in his new shoes, his attempt at conducting business inside Second Life, and more.

For serious, we're going to miss Adam around here. That's going to be cheapened a bit by him still roaming the halls and waving, but we can still pretend he's gone.

Goodbye, Adam Kinney.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Jesse Lewin on knowing Steve Jobs, working at Apple, and posing with Bono

Rory — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:22:52 GMT

Things have changed a lot around Channel 9. As you may have noticed, some people have come and gone over the past year, and the team is very different from what it used to be.

Some would say it's much better. Others would say it's gone downhill, but those people are stupid, and they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Along with changes to 9, we've also seen the rise of 10. We still aren't entirely sure what it is, but we've got some seriously talented people working over there.

One of those people is Jesse Lewin.

I've had many hallway conversations with the guy since starting here. We've talked shop, clothing, music - the normal stuff.

After several months, he started to tell me more and more about his life pre-Microsoft. I was surprised to learn that:

1. His father worked on the Mac "back in the day"

2. When he was a kid, he got to hang out with Steve Jobs with some regularity

3. He worked for Apple (always interesting to talk to people who've worked for Apple in some way)

4. He's met a bunch of uber famous people

5. He likes my shoes

He also worked for Engadget. The guy has quite the history, which is all the more surprising given how young he is.

Anyway, I love the man, and wanted to get him up on 9. While he isn't a dev, he is a geek, and he's my kind of geek. When you can go from chatting about Prada to Powerbooks, you're probably going to get along with me.

Hope you like the interview. It was certainly fun for me, and I plan on doing more interviews with the rest of the team. It's time all you people met the current generation of JeffSand evangelists...