Prison Gig A man has been hired to work full-time at a San Franccisco-based database-building startup, called Turso — while serving his 11th year in prison. As TechCrunch reports, Preston Thorpe was personally offered the job by Turso CEO Glauber Costa, who was inspired by Thorpe's story. "I reached out to him in January, just to understand and get to know him," Costa told TechCrunch. "Since then, I’ve had deep conversations with him about his change of heart that led him to be in the position where he is today." "Knowing his story increased our respect for him personally," he […]

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