August 11, 2017
My Name Is Taylor Le — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
I love learning about the origins of language and how it shapes communities. Reading the works of people from all different backgrounds provides unlimited perspectives.…
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Our team values integrity, ambition, effort, skill, and team spirit. Read the stories about why we joined Aha! — and why you should too.
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July 28, 2017
My Name Is Tom Bailey — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
I have always been interested in making, building, or fixing something. This interest led to a variety of summer jobs as I was working through school — from bartending to…
June 30, 2017
My Name Is Steve Dagless — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
I have always known that the pursuit of money for money’s sake will ultimately result in unhappiness. My parents taught me these values. The messages were clear — if you…
May 26, 2017
My Name Is Barbara Dinoff — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
Embrace the unexpected. I suppose my parents instilled this trait in me. In the early 1990s, they moved our family from Poland to the U.S. — sight unseen. I cannot…
April 21, 2017
My Name Is Joon Shin — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
Marketing agencies get a bad rap. It can be said that they foster ruthless work environments aimed at one thing: racking up the biggest client spend bill possible. Well,…
April 7, 2017
My Name Is Jeremy Wells — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
My first job as a programmer was working with a legacy Visual Basic 6 application. Although VB has always been looked down upon as a programming language, it delivered a…
February 24, 2017
My Name Is Nicole Wosje — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
I was inspired by my parents. Whether they were delivering food after a life event or shoveling snow for an elderly neighbor, helping those in need was part of their…
January 20, 2017
My Name Is Molly Jane Quinn — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
I was dreaming about Aha! long before I knew it existed. Let me explain. It was a cold night in December 2014. I was at a cookie party — you know the kind, where you bake…
December 27, 2016
My Name Is Deirdre Clarke — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
Deirdre is happy to work with other product experts who are kind, helpful, and fun. Find out more about Deirdre Clarke and why she joined Aha!
October 31, 2016
My Name Is John Bohn — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
I love discovering new things. As a kid, I taught myself to program text-based adventure games on a TI-99/4A in BASIC. They were simple clones of games I enjoyed, such as…
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