Into the woods of business

On 29/09/2024 00:58, vallor wrote:

Technology transfer:  my business partner and I took what
we learned setting up and running the student-access Linux host,
and built a dialup shell provider. We became an ISP, which has
now been a CLEC for many years.  We sell 10 Gigabit fiber-to-the-home
now...it's a living.

Congratulations on following an actual PATH of a career.
Where were you located, and how did you avoid being squished when "the big ones" decided they needed to be ISPs?
Not many survived the two big jumps from dial-up to renting circuits from the ILEC and then again laying down fiber.