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    1. Hubert Thieblot‏ @hthieblot 23 Sep 2019
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      This. You have a company to worry about, things are going to massively change in the next 5 years for you for better or worse. Hard to believe buying a house at those price tags right now wouldn’t add more stress to your life. :)

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    2. Yang‏Verified account @YangCLiu 23 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @hthieblot @TimSweeneyEpic

      Thanks Hubert haha - it just feels so rough paying rent and having money go into the void 😬 Tim - what did you do when you first moved to Cary when starting Epic?

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    3. Yang‏Verified account @YangCLiu 23 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @YangCLiu @hthieblot @TimSweeneyEpic

      (I’ll be moving out of my parents 😂)

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    4. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 23 Sep 2019
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      I lived with my parents till age 26, but was at work 80% of the time. I rented a one-bedroom apartment from 1998-2003 and then custom built a house. Its value is probably still underwater, but, key point, it’s still here. Unlike my investments in the first dotcom bubble.

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    5. Domy  👍 Deep Learning Architect #YoMeQuedoEnCasa‏ @domyoriginal 23 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @YangCLiu @hthieblot

      Interesting story, did unreal engine 1 develop completely at your parents' house or did you complete it elsewhere?

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    6. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 23 Sep 2019
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      Epic was located at my parents house from 1991 to 1993, but we outgrew it and we got an office in Rockville MD.

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    7. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 23 Sep 2019
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      From 1995-1996 Unreal development was distributed among me at the Epic office working on editor and then renderer, Cliff Bleszinski in California, and James Schmalz with the Digital Extremes Team in Waterloo, Ontario. Then we spend a year in Canada finishing it up.

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    8. Yang‏Verified account @YangCLiu 23 Sep 2019
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      If you could go back, would you have changed anything re: keeping the team distributed? Was it hard maintaining the culture/work efficiency when you guys scaled since some key individuals were physically scattered?

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    9. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 23 Sep 2019
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      Distributed development was a great way to start a business, and enabled us to attract a level of of talent inexpensively (folks were paid in royalties rather than salary) that would have been impossible otherwise as a startup. No regrets.

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    10. Yang‏Verified account @YangCLiu 23 Sep 2019
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      That’s super cool, thanks for sharing! We started off distributed (a good amount of folks still are) but we’re trying to have more centralized offices now. It’s been hard attracting amazing talent due to competition with general tech companies though :( Also Bellevue is $$$😬

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      Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 23 Sep 2019
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      It’s a very different climate now. In the early 1990’s the motive forces for assembling groups of talented new developers into new or existing companies were incredibly weak. Now there is vast competition among big employers and startups and VCs.

      4:30 PM - 23 Sep 2019
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        1. Domy  👍 Deep Learning Architect #YoMeQuedoEnCasa‏ @domyoriginal 23 Sep 2019
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          Exactly, it has nothing to do with those times now, Tim talking about past times, had you ever heard "Golden age of Spanish software", here in Spain it was a time to remember, I was more of C64 than Spectrum, I I think I remember you had a C64, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_Spanish_software …

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