Did that startup founder really work through his wedding?
At his wedding reception, Mackrell needed to quickly give a colleague access to code that could only be unblocked from his laptop. His fellow co-founder Torrey Leonard seized the moment by taking a photo to capture Mackrell wrapping up a pull request, staring at his computer in a ballroom as his friends and family danced in the background, floral arrangements and fairy lights abounding.
Leonard posted the photo of his co-founder on LinkedIn with a reverent caption. The image of a founder coding at his own wedding went viral, sparking both awe and outrage.
“In this very moment that the picture was taken, Casey needed to push one thing to a server. There was a code on his laptop that a colleague needed to access,” Leonard told TechCrunch. “For 30 seconds, Casey was clicking a button: He logged in, clicked a button, done. And you can see in the picture, too, people are laughing.”
Leonard doesn’t provide the context that Mackrell was on his computer for less than one minute. But that’s what made his post so clicky: The idea of a founder spending hours coding at his own wedding is maddening. What actually happened isn’t as heinous.
