My story regarding the Texas grocery store implementing Bitcoin soon

I work in mobile app development and was working on the HEB app at the time. It was early-mid 2017. It was my first job out of school after finishing my computer science degree. We had a group 'brainstorming' session with the HEB product owner and we were supposed to write down new ideas for the app on a big whiteboard.

Everybody walked up one by one and wrote down their ideas. It was quiet in the room this whole time...

Near the end of the session I walked up and wrote 'Bitcoin' next to the other suggestion which was to integrate PayPal into the app.

The HEB executive immediately laughed at me in front of everybody and rolled his eyes. Everyone looked at me and laughed. I was mortified, set down the sharpie, and immediately returned to my seat. He then turned to one of the older guys on the development team and grunted something like "really shows you the problem with this generation". One-by-one he reviewed each of the suggestions written on the whiteboard and when he came to mine he completely ignored it.

Bitcoin was $3,000.

I never even talked to the product owner after that because he was a sleazy asshole to me for no reason at all, on my first week at work, while embarrassing me in front of all my coworkers. Turns out I was right, and if they would have followed my advice they would have 10X the value of any BTC payments received at the time. Now it's 2021 and they are barely piloting the program in one city. I have mixed feelings because obviously one person doesn't represent the entire company, and now he works somewhere else (I checked his LinkedIn), but it's something I'll never forget.

Turns out that maybe you should try listening to the quiet nerd sitting in the back.