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Sam Odio: I Left Facebook to Rejoin Y Combinator With a New Start-up
- nick007 15y agoGlad to be in the current YC class with Sam. <plug>if you're interested in the intersection of econ and e-commerce we're hiring. http://freshplum.com/jobs http://freshplum.com/jobs </plug>
- nikcub 15y agoc'mon dude edit: i missed that you are the same company. plug away
- borski 15y agoEDIT: Though I value transparency over most anything else, I'm removing the majority of this at Nick's (freshplum founder) request. To make a long story short: there was a configuration error on the server which allowed for discovery of features freshplum hadn't meant to launch yet. Nothing to be ashamed of, especially for a startup. But I heard there was a company working to fix this sort of thing. ;)
- donaq 15y agoNice obfuscation of your email address.
- michael_dorfman 15y agoIf you're in the current YC class, you should know there are more effective options for you to do your hiring plugs than polluting other threads.
- Sam_Odio 15y agoHey Michael - Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure it's out of line to plug that we're hiring...especially in a post about my departure to join Freshplum. You are right - there are more effective options. However we're at the stage where we'll take whatever chance we'll get to spread the word. As a small startup with limited resources you have to stay hungry.
- michael_dorfman 15y agoFirst of all, congratulations, Sam. You're an inspiration to us all, and I wish you (and Freshplum) the best of luck. It's definitely not out of line to plug that you're hiring-- my point was that you would be better to avail yourself of the special "hiring for YC company" posts built into the system, and I see that you've done exactly that.
- davidw 15y agoIn this thread, people can ask him question, something that can't be done on job postings.
- rdl 15y agoIs the Olive Garden reference a metaphor or other abstract thing like Fresh Plum? I thought it was a restaurant chain in the US.
- dpritchett 15y agoI imagine it just means that Nick is a recent graduate whose last job was at a restaurant. I worked at O'Charley's in college before I got my first dev job.
- djblue2009 15y agoI think I had Nick as a server at the Olive Garden, once. I'm pretty sure he's a better engineer than a waiter. I did get a free Sprite off of him though.
- iqster 15y agoThe email address script was cute :)
- ed209 15y agoor just send an email to 0@,1@,2@,3@,4@...22@ :)
- borski 15y agoAssuming they won't notice that is probably not the right way to go. Also, 22@ might be a little high. Just sayin'
- iqster 15y agoHeh ... I wonder why they didn't multiply by 7 (rather than 11)? The frequency counts would have been the same as rolling two dice. Too obvious perhaps? Or maybe that would have attracted the wrong sort of developers :-p
- Dn_Ab 15y agoArdent monopoly fans? heh. I not particularly skilled in javascript but surely multiplying by 7 would return a number between 0 and 6 inclusive? Which is much more like rolling two 7 sided dice numbered from 0 which yields a different value in the pattern.
- iqster 15y agoCatan fans and craps shooters ;) Oops ... off by 1 again ... story of my life :p
- dpritchett 15y agoFun, too! I just spent a nice few minutes in the Chrome debug console brute forcing it.
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- dangrossman 15y agoCoincidentally I ran into this today: http://blacklocus.com/ http://blacklocus.com/ I wonder how much FreshPlum will differ.
- seto28 15y ago"Alexander, meanwhile, had helped manage OdioWorks, in addition to founding a previous Y Combinator company (a failed coupon site)" What was the previous "failed coupon site" nick007 founded?
- tomhoward 15y agoPetsales/Tinycoupon (W09). Cofounder was @breck, who has also launched a new startup in a later batch.
- jdp23 15y agoCongrats to Sam and Nick. Sound exciting! This has to be a bit disappointing from Facebook's perspective. When they bought Divvyshot it was described as a talent acquisition ... turns out that at least for Sam, it was just a short-term talent rental.
- sshadmand 15y agoCongrats man!
- sonsryan 15y agoCongrats to Sam and Nick. I have no doubt that these two will kick ass.