When Employees Selecting to Stay Were also Among the [Very] First to be Hired

Steve Losh's indiscreet online resume^[3] of sorts

1. Plano Internet^[2] (Dial Up Support Employee #1 [just me the first year]) -> Dallas Internet^[1] -> Ethos Communications -> Catalog.com (same company/different names over time)

Catalog.com -> ThePlanet Internet Services

ThePlanet Internet Services -> SoftLayer Technologies

SoftLayer Technologies -> SoftLayer, an IBM Company

[IBM acquires SoftLayer Technologies]

SoftLayer, an IBM Company -> IBM Cloud

^[1] ThePlanet Internet Services/SoftLayer Technologies "Founding Fathers" met and started here in year two of Plano/Dallas Internet's existence

^[2] A small, fledgling, Dial-up Internet Service Provider (ISP) back in the day

^[3] Remember the rumor several years ago that Al Gore "invented the Internet"?  And while that turned out to be a misquote (evidently), could that same type of generalized statement be applied here in terms of the "creation of IBM Cloud"?

Could the creation of IBM Cloud built on Softlayer's existing Cloud foundation almost ten years ago indirectly have come about as a result of providing the only line of technical support^[2] for Plano Internet dial-up customers in the first year of the company’s existence?

All joking aside, it does make for an interesting thought though, huh? :)