Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

Interestingly, Google was both least aggressive and least attractive to Schachter. When he'd interviewed for a job there, the company had told him, "We don't need idea guys--we've got plenty of them. We just need developers."

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by vaksel » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 5:57 AM UTC

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired.

If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by davidw » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 6:07 AM UTC

aichcon wrote: post #4

cdibona wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About 20 minutes ago :-)

Check out joshu's profile.

I suspect he knows. cdibona is no slouch, either:-)

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by wyclif » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 6:18 AM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

http://pinboard.in/

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by joshu » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 6:18 AM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by joshu » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 6:20 AM UTC

amichail wrote: post #5

joshu wrote: post #2

Since when is this news?

Is it true that Google doesn't hire "idea guys"? From: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2... Interestingly, Google was both least aggressive and least attractive to Schachter. When he'd interviewed for a job there, the company had told him, "We don't need idea guys--we've got plenty of them. We just need developers."

That was a very, very bad interview. Heilemann took two different interviews, 8 months apart, and put them together. With a variety of innaccuracies.

Anyway, some engineer told me that in an interview at some point.