Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo(news.ycombinator.com) |
Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo(news.ycombinator.com) |
This whole topic is in really bad taste :-/
I emailed pg and asked for the thread to be nuked.
If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.
Keep trying to do something new, but so much undone after Picasa.
And when you have a TON of stuff going into an acquisition that never sees the light of day, you kind of obsess about making it real, even 5 years later.
joshu I think there is still a room for you to to resume where you stopped and starting to truly innovate again. I would be your first user. ;o) Let's start with thinking of some good new quirky domain name. ;-))
http://pinboard.in/
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewordsFrom: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
Interestingly, Google was both least aggressive and least attractive to Schachter. When he'd interviewed for a job there, the company had told him, "We don't need idea guys--we've got plenty of them. We just need developers."
Anyway, some engineer told me that in an interview at some point.
Google seems like a reasonable path to redemption - ship something new.
2+ years of sitting on my ass was not fun.
As for uptime, we've had about 20 minutes of downtime this month, in order to set up a master/slave and enable SSL. I can't guarantee the happy streak will continue, but again the gatekeeping fee deters any massive spikes in load, spam, and other growing pains that could take down the site.