“In 2005, two former Merrill Lynch techies, young and living
large in New York City, left their jobs to start a company based on
their favorite pastime: playing with yo-yos. YoYoNation is more
than just an online retailer–it is a community for all things
yo-yo, with a mission to make New York the ‘center of the yo-yo
universe.’ This particular universe runs on open source
software.“Patrick Cuartero and Weber Hsu launched YoYoNation in 2005,
after working with SUSE Linux on mainframes at Merrill Lynch. ‘My
job was to take everything from the QA level and push it out to the
production level,’ says Cuartero…”