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Um, you know ivankirigin works at Facebook, right?

• vaksel 17y ago
  someone whose company was acquired in order to get them into Facebook, will most likely have a different experience and quality of projects, than the average drone. + he's been there what...a month? he is still biased by the honeymoon phase.
  • wheels 17y ago
    Tipjoy wasn't actually acquired -- they hired Ivan, though there may have been a little extra on the table: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/22/facebook-hires-tipjoy-co-founder-ivan-kirigan-after-backing-away-from-a-full-acquisition/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/22/facebook-hires-tipjoy-c...
    • ivankirigin 17y ago
      There wasn't anything extra. That story if full of shit.
      • wheels 17y ago
        To be clear, I didn't mean any foul-play. Quite the contrary. I remember reading that it was chill in the HN comments and don't think I'd bothered to read the original article. Basically I thought you might have gotten a better than average contract there as a devel since you had a background doing cool stuff and was clarifying that Tipjoy wasn't actually acquired.
        • ivankirigin 17y ago
          No problem, I just wanted to clarify.