Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC • Hacker News Board

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by chrisbroadfoot » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 10:29 AM UTC

Good move, I think!

I'm glad you'll be able to provide high impact work to many startups.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by harscoat » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 12:07 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #13

Does this mean posterous isn't doing well?

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr?

Anecdote: for our Quantter blog, we chose Posterous first. But then Marco Arment (busy) advisor of us, just told us: sthg like "Posterous?? those guys keep on trashing us (ie Tumblr)". While 1st impression preferring Posterous product, the switch to Tumblr was easy because of Posterous aggressive attempt to "poach" another startup users. That was not good karma.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by swombat » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:26 PM UTC

harscoat wrote: post #24

btipling wrote: post #13

Does this mean posterous isn't doing well?

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Anecdote: for our Quantter blog, we chose Posterous first. But then Marco Arment (busy) advisor of us, just told us: sthg like "Posterous?? those guys keep on trashing us (ie Tumblr)". While 1st impression preferring Posterous product, the switch to Tumblr was easy because of Posterous aggressive attempt to "poach…

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr?

Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by b3b0p » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 2:14 PM UTC

Garry reached out to me for an interview with Posterous. Although, I didn't get the position in the end I was stoked about the fact he even contacted me in the first place. Thanks Gary! And good luck on your future endeavors with YC!

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by harscoat » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 2:45 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #25

harscoat wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Anecdote: for our Quantter blog, we chose Posterous first. But then Marco Arment (busy) advisor of us, just told us: sthg like "Posterous?? those guys keep on trashing us (ie Tumblr)". While 1st impression preferring Posterous product, the switch to Tumblr was easy because of Posterous aggressive attempt to "poach…

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...

Traffic, users, unique visitors?

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by swombat » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 2:59 PM UTC

harscoat wrote: post #27

swombat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...

Traffic, users, unique visitors?

Evidence? And alexa data is pretty useless, since a large amount of traffic to both tumblr and posterous is not on their home domain.

Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 3:08 PM UTC

harscoat wrote: post #27

swombat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr? Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...

Traffic, users, unique visitors?

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Re: Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

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Post by harscoat » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 3:15 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #28

harscoat wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Traffic, users, unique visitors?

Evidence? And alexa data is pretty useless, since a large amount of traffic to both tumblr and posterous is not on their home domain.

if for both Posterous & Tumblr a large portion of the traffic is hidden, all conditions being equal, on Quantcast & Compete Tumblr is way above Posterous.