The first time Yuriy Porytko emailed me drunk, his message arrived in my inbox at 5:24 in the morning in May 2010.

“Pay more attention or be fucking junior league,” he wrote. “I really appreciate what you’re are doing, you have the right idea. My simple opinion is that you have no clue.”

Seven years ago, Technical.ly wasn’t a 25-person media company. We were a blog template where two friends and I posted event recaps and interviews with those who were just beginning to self-identify as part of a Philly tech community. But we were getting more aggressive and finding that community members had opinions. Just a few months before that email, we hosted an open discussion about our model with also then-volunteer-only Philly Startup Leaders. Yuriy, whom I had only met in passing by then, went in on his email message, which included my two cofounders.

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