Just people in a room

In the early 2000s, I worked for a digital video processing startup that Autodesk acquired. We were merged with another acquisition. Our team became the developers, their team (the &ldquo;others&rdquo;) became management. The others were clueless. They didn&rsquo;t understand the technical domain, our customers, or the product. Naturally, I hated them. Their meetings were always pointless; I…