<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5625px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Hi, </span><div><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5625px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; ">I work for State (<a href="http://www.state.com/">www.state.com</a>). We're a very ambitious large-scale, consumer based, mass market G</span><span style="line-height: 19px; ">lobal Opinion Network thats very</span><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; "> close to launch. </span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5625px; text-align: left; "><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; ">Well-known funders, founders and advisors (</span></font></span><a href="https://state.com/about/people">https://state.com/about/people</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; ">) and a great team already in place but looking to grow that and specifically looking for experienced Ruby developers to work on the core product team, either helping out in the short term on a contract or permanently. Outside of Ruby on Rails we're using Javascript, Node.js, NoSQl databases (MongoDB specifically) and big data </span><span style="line-height: 19px; ">frameworks</span><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; "> like Hadoop so if you've got any experience with these or would like some, then great.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; ">Please email <a href="mailto:andrew@state.com">andrew@state.com</a> if it sounds like something you'd like to be involved in.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; ">Cheers</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><font color="#555555" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.5625px; ">Andrew</span></font></span></div></body></html>