In 1999, Mr. Lee landed at SAC, where he earned millions working for a team of tech-stock traders.
When the campaign ended, Obama's team of tech experts did not exactly knock down the door of the White House personnel office looking to put their newfound tools into the service of the new presidential agenda.
This is not the story of a project headed up by a team of tech nerds that would change the world forever; nor is it a chronicle of the late-nineties dot com millionaires.
For years, he sat near Mr. Cohen on the trading floor in the fund's headquarters in Stamford, Conn., and he was part of a team of tech-stock traders that posted outsize returns during the dot-com boom and bust.
A bunch of limited partners have given a big pile of money so that a team of tech-savvy people can invest everything in startups.
In the technology industry, for example, Jessica Lessin's sharp, pointed (and subscription-only) The Information now has the second largest team of tech reporters in Silicon Valley.
The report details efforts by a team of tech contractors to build and launch a messaging network in Cuba that would be hidden away from the country's strict surveillance and control of the flow of information.
He told me that Facebook has a dedicated team of tech writers who work on this for its projects (with engineers helping out as well) and that the company is also looking at the new Stack Overflow Documentation service for potentially hosting some of its documentation projects, as well.
At the time, a team of tech experts handpicked by The White House, including veterans from Google, traveled to the offices of CGI Federal, an IT contractor in Northern Virginia, to fix the broken website.
The White House said this week that it has created a new team of tech wizards, led by a former Google employee, to help the government avoid another blunder like the troubled rollout of HealthCare.gov.gov
