Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 9:49 PM UTC

Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google
techcrunch.com

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by thunk » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:10 PM UTC

Fuck yeah, joshu! Make something awesome -- you know you want to :)

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by petervandijck » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:24 PM UTC

thunk wrote: post #2

Fuck yeah, joshu! Make something awesome -- you know you want to :)

Amen to that. Good luck.

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by fleaflicker » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:36 PM UTC

In his AMA thread here recently I asked him what he does at google and he was aggravatingly vague, replying: Press buttons, mostly.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357182

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by bdr » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:40 PM UTC

thunk wrote: post #2

Fuck yeah, joshu! Make something awesome -- you know you want to :)

And don't forget to update your HN profile. ;)

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by maxklein » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:41 PM UTC

I don't think he was happy at google, just like I don't think he was happy at yahoo.

I think he should write a book now. It's the natural progression for people who make a single hit startup - they sell it, join some big company, decide that it does not make them happy, give a lot of talks, then fall into some type of mentoring role, then write a book.

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by staunch » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:50 PM UTC

This seems like a positive move. I imagine he learned the hard way that Google may be better than Yahoo, but it's still a Big Dumb Company.

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by joshu » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:51 PM UTC

maxklein wrote: post #6

I don't think he was happy at google, just like I don't think he was happy at yahoo. I think he should write a book now. It's the natural progression for people who make a single hit startup - they sell it, join some big company, decide that it does not make them happy, give a lot of talks, then fall into some type of mentoring role, then write a book.

You're big on jumping to conclusions on pretty limited data, aren't you?

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by joshu » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:52 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #7

This seems like a positive move. I imagine he learned the hard way that Google may be better than Yahoo, but it's still a Big Dumb Company.

Google is a great place. I am glad I worked there. I probably should have stayed longer than I did. I just had that itch to do something different.

Re: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

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Post by joshu » Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 10:52 PM UTC

bdr wrote: post #5

thunk wrote: post #2

Fuck yeah, joshu! Make something awesome -- you know you want to :)

And don't forget to update your HN profile. ;)

Fixed, thanks.