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GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO
- throwawaythat1 7y agoDidn'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.html 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?
- onion2k 7y agoHow 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.
- throwaway66666 7y agoAdditionally when people want to leave but an acquisition is in progress, they might want to wait and finish their role during due diligence and term setting, and leave on good terms afterwards, than a hasty leave that might raise red flags and endanger the process. (not implying that this is what happened here, just adding a scenario where that happens)
- davidw 7y agoHuh, I had missed that. Hope it worked out well! I knew Daniel back when we were both working with Tcl.
- ztratar 7y agoWould you rather be COO of Github, or a VP at VMWare?
- warp_factor 7y agodo you imply that it's better to be COO of Github? Because I would disagree with that.
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- skinnymuch 7y agoWhy do you feel that way?
- warp_factor 7y agoVMWare 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
- ceejayoz 7y agoWould you rather eat the world's largest steak, or the world's best steak? Plus, a VP at VMware isn't going to be in charge of that whole $9B like a COO is. Bitnami is going to be a "Business Departement" too.
- saalweachter 7y agoHow big of a steak are we talking here?
- threeseed 7y agoHave you worked as an executive in an enterprise company ? It really isn't everyone's cup of tea. There is far more bureaucracy, politics, considerations than a small or medium company and your ability to meaningfully effect change is much more limited. Most people with experience in this area would appreciate that one isn't better than the another. They are just different.
- chimen 7y agoIt may be part of the decision that let do Bitnami being acquired.
- smudgymcscmudge 7y agoThe link doesn't work. Probably because of the WordPress issue discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157882
- mastazi 7y agoAnd when it’s back online you will still probably be unable to read due to intrusive pop-ups, reloading on scroll and other dark patterns in which Techcrunch excels
- ajaurio 7y agoVMware acquires Heptio - Kris Nova quits. VMware acquires Bitnami - Ara Pulido and Erica Brescia quit. What's wrong with VMware?
- gkoberger 7y agoMaybe 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.
- jessaustin 7y agoYeah VMWare may get a reputation as the firm to call when founders are feeling restless.
- joewadcan 7y agoErica did a great job building up Bitnami, so I'm pretty pumped to see her + Nat at the helm of GitHub.
- pbiggar 7y agoCongrats to Erica! Phenomenal executive - looking forward to seeing how she moves GitHub forward.
- dmor 7y agoErica 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!
- koolhead17 7y agoLucky Github. Erica is an incredible founder, met her few times in early days of Bitnami at OSCON, Portland.