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Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

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Re: Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

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Post by louismg »

qeorge wrote: post #3

Wow. This changes my opinion of Facebook's webmail offering significantly. Congrats to Mr. Buchheit and YC, you're both making out like bandits.

Paul is a very smart guy. He is a tech visionary, and is extremely practical financially. He will be a huge boon for YC even more than he already has been, and a loss for Facebook. He previously stated he was not involved in any e-mail platform for Facebook, but the timing is interesting indeed. Great news.

Re: Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

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Post by pg »

jayp wrote: post #10
cliffchang wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee... FF was acquired about 15 months ago, so that's about how long Paul was at Facebook. Also, I imagine being a partner in YC is very much a fulltime job.

rtm and trevor blackwell have other fulltime commitments.

PB is going to work full-time though, at least in the spiky sense that Harj and Jessica and I do.

Re: Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

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Post by pg »

louismg wrote: post #12
qeorge wrote: post #3

Wow. This changes my opinion of Facebook's webmail offering significantly. Congrats to Mr. Buchheit and YC, you're both making out like bandits.

Paul is a very smart guy. He is a tech visionary, and is extremely practical financially. He will be a huge boon for YC even more than he already has been, and a loss for Facebook. He previously stated he was not involved in any e-mail platform for Facebook, but the timing is interesting indeed. Great news.

I have no idea what Paul was working on at Facebook, but I believe the timing has to be coincidental, because we drove it. The reason this had to get announced today is that interviews for w2011 start on Monday.

Re: Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

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Post by swah »

logicalmoron wrote: post #8
swah wrote: post #5

Is Y Combinator a full-time job? How long did Paul stayed on Facebook, a couple months? This is odd no?

Hey Swah, I pinged Anthony (the writer of the article) to get his butt in here and answer your questions. You might get a direct answer more quickly if you comment directly on the site or email him, though. In the mean time, thanks for reading!

Thanks, but I find this a much better place to discuss than in blog comments :)
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