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GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by warp_factor »

ztratar wrote: post #9
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?

do you imply that it's better to be COO of Github? Because I would disagree with that.

Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by user5994461 »

ztratar wrote: post #9
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?

Github was acquired by Microsoft, so it's just gonna be a VP at Microsoft.

Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by jessaustin »

gkoberger wrote: post #6
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.

Yeah VMWare may get a reputation as the firm to call when founders are feeling restless.

Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by dmor »

Erica is an incredible founder who worked on Bitnami/Bitrock for 14 years. I’m lucky enough to have invested in her at Demo Day, have her as my partner at XFactor Ventures and as my friend. She is going to be phenomenal in this role, she is so deserving of this win and Microsoft is very lucky!

Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by skinnymuch »

user5994461 wrote: post #12
ztratar wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Github was acquired by Microsoft, so it's just gonna be a VP at Microsoft.

GitHub is far bigger than Bitnami. IE the Github founders are all among the biggest individuals with equity in Microsoft just because of the acquisition. GitHub will likely be its own subsidiary under Microsoft for some time.

Re: GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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Post by warp_factor »

skinnymuch wrote: post #18
warp_factor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

do you imply that it's better to be COO of Github? Because I would disagree with that.

Why do you feel that way?

VMWare has annual revenue of about 9B$. Github.... 300M$

Github is way more hyped accross engineers but VMWare is 30 times bigger! VMWare is simply one league above Github.

Github is a Business Departement part of Microsoft. VMWare is a huge company.

This is the typical fallacy of B2C vs B2B. Consumer products are way more hyped and therefore people think they are way bigger than other less famous B2B Enterprise products

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