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justinY
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About justinY
Formerly, he was SVP at Merkle (acquired by Dentsu for $2B) via the acquisition of his company 500friends, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing solutions backed by $12M+ from Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and YCombinator. He is also an investor in Mobovida (Series A), Hipmunk (acquired by Concur), Bounce Exchange (seed, Series A), Dropoff (seed), First Opinion (seed, former member of the BOD), Firebase (acquired by Google), and Zencoder (acquired by Brightcove).
Prior to 500friends, he dropped out of high school to found two e-commerce marketplace companies, both of which were acquired after reaching $10M+ in revenues.
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Comment #6050320
500friends founder/CEO here. It's not that people with 12+ years of experience are not as good. We were trying to screen out candidates (many of them who are smart) but have been "…
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Comment #6050316
500friends founder/CEO here. It's not that people with 12+ years of experience are not as good. We were trying to screen out candidates (many of them who are smart) but have been "…
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Comment #6050314
500friends founder/CEO here. It's not that people with 12+ years of experience are not as good. We were trying to screen out candidates (many of them who are smart) but have been "…
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Comment #6050302
Hello sir. 500friends founder/CEO here. It's not that people with 12+ years of experience are not as good. We were trying to screen out candidates (many of them who are smart) but …
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Comment #6050277
Brian, In our original job post, we had specified that the ideal candidate would, "not have more than 12 years of MANAGEMENT experience." We UNDERSTAND that this could be misunders…
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Comment #6043664
That's because he (bob tekiela) was at 500friends until may of 2013. In other words, op is lying/mistaken because we were not hiring for this role last year.
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Comment #6043388
You do have a point sir.
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Comment #6043385
My co-founder was previously the (only) VP of Engineering (and did a great job), but we mutually parted ways after the Series B. These things happen... tl;dr, we are not "running t…
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Comment #6043349
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188
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Comment #6043341
via 500friends founder/CEO. As I mentioned to you in my initial apology, we had a fire drill. That being said, the tardiness was inexcusable, and I talked to the developer about th…
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Comment #6043324
Thank you sir. my response here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188 Justin (500friends founder/CEO)
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Comment #6043319
500friends founder/CEO here. Look at my team - 500friends.com/team. Most people are who you may consider to be "old." And we wouldn't be where we're at without them. We do not disc…
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