How to Net a Top Job at Canonical? Be Pals With the Founder.
In 2008:
Also:
Matt Asay: "This time the day was made even better by the addition of my good friend, Bryce Roberts, of O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures."
And barely two years later:
That's nepotism in action. It's all to do with connections. It's not about what you know but who you know. Of course Matt Asay didn't even use GNU/Linux and he had applied for a job at Microsoft.