13. Is all beer the same?

I like most pilsners. People give me a hard time becaues I like Budwiser but fuck'em. It's a cheap beer and it's good. Best yet my roomate just started working at a Budwiser factory and he keeps bringing cases of Bud home. Our beer fridge is stacked.

When is my interview Sleazy?

14. Where do you live and why?

I live in Burlingame, California. I have a roommate who's a friend of mine from high school. At the time he was working in San Francisco and FriendFinder offices are in Palo Alto. So we were looking for something in the Peninsula that was central to both of our jobs. We ended up in Burlingame.

I'm hoping that I can save up enough to buy a place in a couple years. Housing is expensive in the Bay Area but I'm sick of landlords and supers.

sweet dude - have fun with this

Hi Sagi ,
:) whats up

Sleazy, it's the second pic I see in a short while of you doing that (last one was with Derek in Amsterdam). Anything special you want to share with us?

Thanks for the interviews, love reading them.

Hey webgurl whatcha been up to?

True, dressing up was my idea, but shaving our legs was yours.

15. What kind of degree do you have? Talk about your education experience.

I have a degree in Computer Information System from CSU Chico. Chico was an awesome school to go to. I think my time in college really transformed my life. Chico has a rep for being a party school and indeed did live up to that while I attended. My freshman year dorm life was wild and crazy. We partied and drank a lot.

One Thursday night I was coming back from an evening class and all my friends at the dorm were already drunk and hanging out. I made the mistake of playing catchup and going too far too fast. I took 7 shots of bacardi rum in 30 minutes and it fucked me up. I kept drinking Southern Comfort when the bottle of bacardi ran dry. The next memory I have is puking my guts outside the dorm. After that it's being woken up in a hospital by two nurses. I got really sick and couldn't stop dry heaving. Someone called a non-emergency ambulence out to see me. They said they woke me up and gave me all kinds of tests (asked me my name, how many fingers they were holding up, where I was, etc.) and also monitered my vital signs. Everything was fine but I was told that as they were walking out the door I started dry-heaving in my sleep. Since they had come to check me out they were liable for me and refused to leave without me since I was dry-heaving in my sleep. That's how I ended up in the hospital.

When I woke up I had no clue where I was and my eyes followed an IV bag and it's tube all the way down to my left arm. The first thing I asked was how drunk was I last night? They explained to me everything that had happened and asked me if I had a number of someone that could get me. I gave them my friend's number and they left the room to call him. I remember sitting there and looking accross at the table and noticing my shorts and thinking to myself they must have taken them off and set them there. Then I noticed my boxers underneath them on the table and got curious as to what I was wearing underneath the hospital bed sheets. I pulled up the blanket and looked down to see, much to my disappointment, that I was wearing a diaper! I instantly ripped it off and reached for my boxers and shorts.

After that pricey experience I got more cautious about my drinking. I still get drunk now and then but don't let myself get that out of control. My friends all said that I was hilarious and kept them in stitches all night from laughing so hard. For some reason people really like to see me get inebriated.

16. Did you really get paid to play video games?

I did.

I graduated from Chico State December 2000. No company was hiring entry level at the time. All the dotcoms were laying off. I couldn't even get someone at a job fair to look at my resume since I had no experience. The only job I could find was in a market that was growing was working tech support for Electronic Arts. I supported their Maxis line of games which was mostly "The Sims". It's the best selling game in video game history and is the only succesfully selling game where the majority of people who play it are female. The majority of the people calling for support help about it are bon-bon eating, Oprah watching, middle aged housewives who don't know how to use a computer. It made walking them though things difficult. I was a contract employee and after it ran out found a job at Infogrames.

I worked there for a few months as a video game tester. That's where I spent hours a day playing video games for money. The only cool thing about it was the cool people I worked with. Since we were testers by nature all the games were buggy. The hours were long because they forced 12 hour days and they wanted one 8 hour day on the weekend. In addition the pay sucked. I also had no control over what game I was assigned to test. I had to do kids games but the worst was NeverWinter Nights. I've never been into Dungons & Dragons but now I had to be concerned with +3 dragon slaying axes versus a ogre. :Oh crap

I left that job for FriendFinder the day I found out from the temp agency that I was hired.

You can find my name in the the credits for a few of the games that I got a chance to test.

another great interview

17. Do you rub the fact that you're one of the chosen people into non chosen people's faces?

I don't think I do. Maybe when I'm around VirtuMike. But that's just because he's the most in your face Jew you could ever meet. It cracks me up.

The last day of Internext last year we ordered sandwiches from the Rum Jungle before my flight out. There were about 8 of us and everyone got their food except for me. The waitress never put my order in and she kept stalling. For some reason it ended up talking longer to get my one dish than it took to make everyone elses. VirtuMike told me that I wasn't a real Jew because at one point when the waitress came around to ask everyone how the food was I didn't say anything. He says I should have said, "Oh my gosh this food is so good you have to try it."

Then when she looks down and sees no food in front of me she'll say, "What food?".

To which I if I was a "real Jew" Mike says I would have matter-of-factly exhaled, "Ahhhh-ah!".

hahah oh wow, I have to remember that one!

18. Discuss the incident with the poodle and the dildo that got you kicked out of the circus in college.

Since I don't think there will be any pictures found to prove this, I'm going to flat out deny the incident ever happened.

19. Have you ever been HAMMERED or high at a webmaster event? couch couch cancun, woops did I say that outloud..... discuss in detail

I've never been high at a webmaster event and never will be. I don't smoke pot and even if I did I wouldn't do it on my company's time.

The last day of the Webmaster Access Getaway this year I did get hammered. I was having a good time ordering shots and my bartender friend was giving me two at a time.

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I ended up blowing chunks off of RRRed's balcony. The next day the flight back kinda sucked. I had a really early flight my clock in the room was set an hour fast. I ended up sitting in the airport hung-over waiting longer than I needed because of that.

20. Why was it so hard for you to get a job after you got your degree?

I touched on this a bit earlier but I'll go into more detail. My last semester of college everyone was asking me if I had any jobs yet. Back then anyone with IT education was eagerly sought after. I didn't feel like interviewing and driving down to the Bay Area while still in my last semester. I had a few difficult classes that I was focusing on and figured the jobs would still be there after I graduated.

The timing of my graduation was aweful. Companies where laying off not hiring so it wasn't the best time to try to get an entry level job. While I was looking I worked at a Computer Networking training center doing administrative stuff in exchange for taking free networking courses. I was thinking about finding an system adminstrator job once I finished the courses and got my certifications.

I ended up getting a job doing technical support for EA and I was still working at the networking school on the weekends and evenings until they went out of business.

It sucked not being able to find a job but in the end I think things worked out well for me.

21. Where is your family from? Where are they now. discuss

My dad was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His family moved to Israel when he was only a year old. Israel as a nation was a only one or two years old. Before Egypt my father's family was living in an Italian port city called Corfu.

My mom was born in Oradia, Romania. It's located in the Transylvania region of Romania and is one town over from Dracula's castle. I've never been there but plan on going sometime. After her parents divorced my mom and grandmother moved to Israel. My grandfather moved to South San Francisco.

Later on my parents moved to the US though my grandfather right before my second birthday. They still live in South San Francisco in a house they've owned for over 20 years.

22. What cities have you lived in and why.

I was born in Naharia, Israel but grew up in South San Francisco. I've lived in Chico, California while in college. After college I've lived in San Jose, Santa Clara, and now Burlingame. Those 3 cities are all here in the Bay Area close to enough to Palo Alto where FriendFinder is located. I'd love to live in Palo Alto and cut down on my commute time but it's an expensive area to live in.

23. How did you start at Adult Friend Finder and get your current position.

I already covered my start at FriendFinder but getting my current position is also an interesting story. I was Raquel's assistant for about 3 weeks and then she went on vacation for 10 days. I was watching over her affiliates while she gone and handling the issues that came up. When she returned she decided that she wanted a change from FriendFinder and put in her resignation.

Andrew brought me into his office and started off telling me that he was going to need my help. I was expecting him to say that he wanted me to help out with the affiliates until a replacement could be found. But that's not what he was asking for. He wanted me to continue working with the affiliates. Andrew said I did a good job with them while she was on her vacation and that I should continue with it. He asked me to go to Atlanta with Jack for Webmaster Access and to find Lars and talk to him.

My mom had for some reason read my horoscope that day and called me later on to tell me that it said I would be traveling places with my job soon. That night when I emptied my pockets at home I pulled out one of those centenial celebration quarters and it was for Georgia!

Jack was running the Affilaite Team and I was working with most of the top affiliates. We started expanding the team and now have a sizable staff of affiliate managers and coordinators. After Jack's departure from FriendFinder in March I took over running the team under the Director of Marketing and Lars' guidence. I get along well with Andrew, Lars and the rest of the FriendFinder / Various upper management so it makes doing my job that much easier.

100!!!! Is WOJ dead?

24. Talk about Jack. Did you feed him drugs to get him fired to get his job?

I didn't meet Jack at FriendFinder until I became Raquel's assistant. I really got to know him after she departed and we started traveling to shows a lot. We use to talk a lot away from the office and brainstorm. We were both very dedicated to our jobs and the growth of the company. He gave me a lot of confidence to do the job I was doing and I learned quite a bit from him. Mostly I was enjoying the team atmosphere that we created in our office.

Towards the end some things happened that eventually lead to his time at FriendFinder ending. No one was happy that the relationship had to end the way it did.

I never did anything to set him up to get fired. It wasn't my intention to take over his job as I was happy in my role at FriendFinder at the time. Jack use to talk about being a lifer at FriendFinder so I never thought about a promotion coming from his departure from the company.

25. Discuss the car chase you got yourself into at 16.

Two weeks after I got my licence I was hanging out with some friends and we got hungry and went to a supermarket to get some grub. As we were leaving we saw a car full of girls pulling away as well. We followed them for shits and giggles to see where we'd end up. At one point in order to keep up with them I had to cut off a truck.

We ended up losing them up a hill in a residentual area. We decided to wait a few minutes at the bottem of the hill to see if they drive by. While waiting the truck that I cut off drove up next to me and the people inside were pissed and coming after us. I floored it and took off. They followed us for like 40 minutes. I was in a piece of shit 1980 honda accord and couldn't lose them. We were also lost in this residentual area and couldn't find our way out. I was running though stopsigns and doing everything I could to lose them. Eventually I had to go around someone who was waiting at a stop sign in order to finally lose them. We found our way to the freeway and out of there shortly after.

I thought we were going to get our asses kicked that night. It made us wonder if we were freaking the shit out of the girls that we started off following ourselves.

26. What was the very first job you had? second? Third.

The first job I had was working as staff at a summer camp.

The following summer (1995) I worked for Digital Video Magazine. I would take press releases they recieved about digital video products and summarise it for a product database that was going to be uploaded on to their website. That's when I got my first taste of the Internet.

One summer in college I interned for ThermoFinnigan a company in San Jose that made liquid and gas chromatography equipment. My job was to write test scripts using Visual Test for their software. Whenever a new beta was released we could run my test scripts and quickly find if a new bug was introduced into the code.

27. How many women/men have been sexually hurrassed at your office. Discuss

Jack and I were spoken to about a GFY thread he made that I posted in about a FriendFinder employee earlier this year. Is that what you are referring to? Other than that I haven't seen anything else during my time at FF. We have rules in the office to prevent an uncomfortable work enviroment. In fact I'm not even allowed to wear the AFF shirt with the stick figures on them that you often see me wearing at the shows while in the office.

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woot go sagi go sagi

I'll finish up the rest tomorrow.

Ok sounds good :thumbsup

Great interview and pics. Nice:thumbsup

i've got a lot of reading to do!

another Great Interview :thumbsup

AFF rocks out.

28. Are you religious? Discuss in detail

No, I don't think you could call me religious. Religious Jews keep their heads covered, keep strictly kosher, pray 3 times a day, don't work or use electricty on Saturdays, probably don't work in adult either.

I won't eat pork or shellfish -- if it's from under the sea it's not for Sagi. :winkwink: Aside from that I do mix milk and meat products in the same meal, which Jews aren't suppose to do. I'd got to religious services as much as I should. You could call me a secular Jew.

I identify with the Jewish culture more than I practice the religion. There have been so many times in Jewish history that people have wanted to kill us off. That's why I think it's important to maintain my Jewish identity. I can't let the haters win by letting Judaism disappear.

I love reading these answers!! It's information that doesn't usually come up during office talk... even water cooler conversations. Thanks Sleazy!

Awesome read so far...

:pimp

Sagi is sexy

29. What's soo sexy about girls in boots?

I like leggy girls in boots. Who doesn't?

Here you go:
http://www.pant.co.uk/gallerys/legs/images/boots.jpg

Sagi! One of my favs in the biz :)

I think when Sagi poored a freshly opened bottle of water on his own head during dinner in Cancun, for no particular reason, was when I really got to liking that guy. I mean who gets that wasted before dinner, I will tell you who, many good friends of mine.

30. Are you really a mama's boy? How often do you eat with them.

Who said I'm a mama's boy? I'm going to have to call my mom up and tell
her... J/K.

I'm not a mama's boy... I might be a good son. :winkwink: I mostly
have dinner with my parents when I'm over there to pick up my mail or do
laundry. They know what I do for a living and are okay with it.