LambdaCubeI never mentioned it before, but the first company I interned at, a small medical billing software shop, went bankrupt at least in part because the lead dev/CTO was obsessed with breaking the world record for calculating pi on a consumer desktop and directed most of his attention to that task.
Also didn't help that the CEO was basically always absent and the biggest paying customer was so annoying that nobody in the company wanted to talk to them. At some point they asked me, the intern who started weeks earlier, to drive across the country to meet the client because nobody else wanted to go.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that my promised pay never came through.
cketti@LambdaCube Some goals are more important than others!
Did they succeed in breaking the world record?
@cketti Unfortunately the company folded before we got to tht point.