John Washam

Senior Software Engineer at nowhere right now. My opinions are my own and not that of my employer, at any time. Founder of TalkToTheManager and zKorean. I like drawing. I have several lifetimes worth of pencils.

Hey there, I’m John Washam, CEO of TalkToTheManager, creator of zKorean, and a few failed projects I won’t talk about much, but will be sharing lessons learned.

After years of starting my own businesses on the web, I started this site to share what I’ve learned about running a web business without venture capital or large personal investments.

Nowadays I mostly blog about software engineering and computer science. My startup days are over.

John Washam hard at work, 2006 — 2006 — hard at work and looking scruffy

John Washam working on an early startup, 2002 — 2002 — working on an early startup

Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2, 64KB — 1985 — This is how I got my start.

I started with my brother’s TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (16KB memory) and later upgraded to 64KB. It had no hard drive and no floppy disk. I loaded and saved programs from special leaderless cassette tapes. It made a sound similar to a modem when loading/saving.

Thanks for taking the time to get to know me.