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Dan Shipper is the cofounder of the recently founded Firefly. He blogs at DanShipper.com and tweets at @danshipper.

I started coding in 5th grade after I read Bill Gates’ biography. I decided that I wanted to create a Microsoft competitor and build an operating system to rival Windows. It was going to be called Megasoft. I even wrote up a marketing plan for it.

Needless to say my master plan didn’t quite work out as I had expected. It turns out writing an entire operating system should take up more than one step in your path to world domination.