Suits versus jeans: Why you should care about Orlando’s generational tech culture chasm

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Author: Abraham Aboraya
Publisher: Orlando Business Journal
Date: August 1, 2014

Have you ever watched your parents get in a fight as an adult, where you know that deep down, they love each other, but they also have that ability to launch verbal missiles at each other?

Similarly, Orlando Business Journal’s 2014 technology industry outlook this month took a turn for the awkward.

For example, here’s a couple of the zingers that came out of Jim Hoefflin, CEO of Empower Software Solutions:

  • “With all due respect to our defense contractors and our federal government — don’t audit me — but you don’t help me.”
  • “Your technology is not my technology. I don’t know who’s in my little corner of the universe down here, but I feel very lonely.”