GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by CrankyBear » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 4:18 PM UTC

GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO
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Post by smudgymcscmudge » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 7:23 PM UTC

The link doesn't work. Probably because of the WordPress issue discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157882

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Post by throwawaythat1 » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC

Didn't bitnami get acquired less than a month ago? How come the co-founder moves out so quickly? Was it an acqui-hire? Atleast https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h... talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?

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Post by ajaurio » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:06 PM UTC

VMware acquires Heptio - Kris Nova quits.

VMware acquires Bitnami - Ara Pulido and Erica Brescia quit.

What's wrong with VMware?

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Post by onion2k » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:40 PM UTC

throwawaythat1 wrote: post #3

Didn't bitnami get acquired less than a month ago? How come the co-founder moves out so quickly? Was it an acqui-hire? Atleast https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h... talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?

How come the co-founder moves out so quickly?

It happens. Sometimes a founder doesn't want to be part of the new organisation and negotiates a quick departure as part of their terms. If all parties are happy it's fine, and not a sign of anything negative.

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Post by gkoberger » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:53 PM UTC

ajaurio wrote: post #4

VMware acquires Heptio - Kris Nova quits. VMware acquires Bitnami - Ara Pulido and Erica Brescia quit. What's wrong with VMware?

Maybe nothing? Many founders have no desire to stick around for an acquisition, and VMWare has a lot of competent people who would be eager to take over.

It's possible that's _why_ they sold to VMWare... they get to walk away rather than being stuck at a big company for 4 years vesting.

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Post by davidw » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:57 PM UTC

throwawaythat1 wrote: post #3

Didn't bitnami get acquired less than a month ago? How come the co-founder moves out so quickly? Was it an acqui-hire? Atleast https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h... talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?

Huh, I had missed that. Hope it worked out well! I knew Daniel back when we were both working with Tcl.

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Post by joewadcan » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

Erica did a great job building up Bitnami, so I'm pretty pumped to see her + Nat at the helm of GitHub.

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Post by ztratar » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

throwawaythat1 wrote: post #3

Didn't bitnami get acquired less than a month ago? How come the co-founder moves out so quickly? Was it an acqui-hire? Atleast https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h... talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?

Would you rather be COO of Github, or a VP at VMWare?

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Post by chimen » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 9:59 PM UTC

throwawaythat1 wrote: post #3

Didn't bitnami get acquired less than a month ago? How come the co-founder moves out so quickly? Was it an acqui-hire? Atleast https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h... talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?

It may be part of the decision that let do Bitnami being acquired.