Jason Calacanis at his finest

This was posted on Evan Culver's blog and made it to the front page of hn the day after it happened. It was deleted off of HN shortly after being posted.

It was originally on http://evanculver.posterous.com/ but he appears to have since removed it.

Edit: Adding original link bit.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#5

Post by tlack » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 10:48 PM UTC

I feel like if we knew who he quit to go work for, we'd have a better idea of why Mr. Calacanis was so upset. Must have been a powerful direct competitor - I hope..

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#6

Post by Frazzydee » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 10:50 PM UTC

tlack wrote: post #5

I feel like if we knew who he quit to go work for, we'd have a better idea of why Mr. Calacanis was so upset. Must have been a powerful direct competitor - I hope..

We do know: Yahoo

@evanculver Good luck at Yahoo, dude. It's not as dead as some say, as is evidenced by the excellent code they churn out. -- http://twitter.com/codeshaman/status/12584315658

@codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy. -- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#7

Post by staunch » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 10:50 PM UTC

I think it's best if this doesn't get killed for the 20th time. It's clearly not going to go away until it's had the usual rise and fall on HN.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#8

Post by MikeCapone » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 10:53 PM UTC

This wasn't meant to be public, but then, lots of things that aren't meant to be public should be to deter people from being total jerks. I think this falls in this category.

And I say this as someone who used to quite enjoy Calacanis's podcasts a few years ago.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#9

Post by mrkurt » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 10:54 PM UTC

Frazzydee wrote: post #6

tlack wrote: post #5

I feel like if we knew who he quit to go work for, we'd have a better idea of why Mr. Calacanis was so upset. Must have been a powerful direct competitor - I hope..

We do know: Yahoo @evanculver Good luck at Yahoo, dude. It's not as dead as some say, as is evidenced by the excellent code they churn out. -- http://twitter.com/codeshaman/status/12584315658 @codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy. -- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584

That makes me wonder, has Yahoo laid off more or less employees (proportionally) than Mahalo?

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#10

Post by prawn » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 10:56 PM UTC

tlack wrote: post #5

I feel like if we knew who he quit to go work for, we'd have a better idea of why Mr. Calacanis was so upset. Must have been a powerful direct competitor - I hope..

What does he always say? 'Peace and love'?

It's a really insightful and petulant reaction to what I thought was a perfectly nice resignation note from the Evan guy.