We continue with the interview with Santiago Siri ( part one )

The Tecnoloco (ET): As you look at the future? (If any fucking question!) Santiago Siri (SS): lol .. if it is not an easy question. When I booted with Popego, the target set was to generate a company that could really innovate and get into a competitive edge worldwide. And that demand a huge effort and is very ambitious it to boot from a country like Argentina where there is little tradition of that. I wish I could take a long flight Popego and my future is marked by the course that will take the company over the next years or even decades to come. I like to think in long term and obviously work every day to grow steadily. But, given as things are given .. surely in the future find me working on projects that seek to innovate and be original. Nothing is more important than that.

ET: How do you Definis Artist or Technician?

SS: Although long ago I do not, I like programming and long ago I do not. On the other hand, as many programmers think that elbowing is an art in itself. But it is also true that I look much the aesthetic side and particularly Popego I have put my own hand in the design and usability. I suppose I should define myself as an "entrepreneur" now that I am conducting a company .. but I do not like at all that definition, that always sounded a bit empty to be an "entrepreneur" to dry. Well .. harder at me with this question

ET: What general attitude should be an entrepreneur?, Used to be "submissive"?

SS: I can tell you that attitude I took, which helped me a lot .. and is to be constantly in learning mode, to be alert to what is happening and be receiving all kinds of tips, news, views, etc.. In my case I learned a lot from my partner, Emiliano Kargieman , who also invest in the company on capital invested also clearly transmit their knowledge and experiences. I learned a lot of team working in Popego: they all know a lot more than me in some specific area of ​​the project. And finally learn a lot of feedback from users, which are quite sincere when they have a chance to speak their minds openly. If one is always alert to hear the voices of others, the criterion that has one to make decisions much more solid then.

ET: Are you still active in ADVA ?

SS: ADVA is one of those projects that I love but I can not spend my time. I am heartened to see that today a lot is well-established gaming companies, selling projects around the world and even reaching what seemed like a utopia 7 years ago as it was to develop console games in Argentina. Check that the EVA is made by 6th year is also something that makes me very happy. If I look in perspective, there have been lots of things with the community effort of video games and have been involved in the genesis of it was incredible. Today my only link with ADVA, and this does not tell anyone is that I am the one who pays the hosting of the site

ET: Did your parents to get involved?

SS: My father is a lawyer, a very traditional work for several decades in the brewer Quilmes. And my mom is a rare combo writer (this putting together a book of stories now) + entrepreneur .. I was very young when she had a slipper factory and now works in the tourism industry. And luckily the two stalwarts have been with me .. supported me from day one, when I told them I wanted to leave the power to make a football game .. but hey, in case of my brother and were cured of fright .. I paved the way the

ET: How do you get along with your brother Liniers (by the way, this great interface of your site )?

SS: He has 10 years older than I. .. and throughout my life was my idol. I can tell? If today I have some musical taste or literary cinephile's all because of him. I remember as a kid forced me to memorize the names of rock bands that came out on TV channels .. he opened the world of culture since I was born .. and today with his cartoon in the newspaper is doing just that with very many readers around the country! He was also an example of persistence, endeavored to take a lot to reach the site is within the world of comics here .. which leaves me little doubt to me about how valuable it is to strive and persist in what one likes.

ET: Are you studying a university degree?

SS: No.. and perhaps there are things I would like some more solid formation. But I always felt uncomfortable in academia .. I enjoy a lot of reading and paradoxically end up reading about various topics of science or philosophical and political essays. But hey, I often say that having made ​​the FD was my university

ET: Do you see directing a movie, you want this kind of project?

SS: hahaha .. obvious! I love .. but I have full awareness that direct a film requires a lot of technical knowledge and aesthetic .. film has a very complex and profound language. The most important thing would certainly have a good story to tell .. but hey, I enjoy a lot to make software, which I think in many ways as one of the most important forms of expression and interesting this time.

And these are the questions tecnolocas: (to everyone we interview them we will do the same questions)

• PC or Mac?: Mac
• MAC OS, Linux or Windows?: Mac OS X.. this operation is something poetic.
• Favorite gadget: iPhone, hard to believe it's real. It's a bug in 2015, not 2008.
• Favorite Software: Hard to choose. Gmail seems to me impeccable.
• Video favorite game: Katamari Damacy .. pure beauty.
• Last video game played (and opinion): Spore .. contrary to other games Will Wright, is very goal oriented and lacks the fantasy of playing as an unrestricted free experience. In a Darwinian game, that was very important and missed. I hate to say.
• Book / Cartoon Favorite: Maus I and II. It's a painful portrait of the Holocaust and gave the comic a unique expressive richness.
• Blog / favorite place: Wikipedia. We should give him the Nobel Peace Prize to Jimmy Wales
• Favorite Movie: Thank .. put it in technical tie "Space Odyssey: 2001" Kubrick for his influence on me and "Modern Times" by Chaplin for his influence in the world.
• Last movie seen (and opinion), " Blindness "in the film based on the novel by Saramago. Impeccable direction of Meirelles (" City of God ") and one of my favorite actors, Gael Garcia Bernal .
• Sports: haha .. a year ago I would say without shame Tennis .. Today I tell you with shame.
• What are you doing on Saturday at night?: Hmm .. not find a regular pattern of activity to my Saturday night, but if I can be at a barbecue with friends swapping stories, I'm happy.
• Person / s you admire (of any kind): I do not admire, but I woke up a lot of fascination at the time the historical figure of Che Guevara. An idealist who died with his boots on and became a symbol of rebellion .. but I can not separate that fundamentalist and dogmatic man who murdered people and established a disastrous regime in Cuba. This dualism of Che .. is fascinating.

THANK SANTI!

In these days, from the one of the interview today, followed two important facts:
1) Creative Award Argentino: Candelaria Schamun, Santiago Siri, Sebastian Ortega, Diego and Pedro Saborido Capusotto

2) Popego in hyperconnected (TELEFE, Canal 11, Argentina)

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