Another Mahalo Resignation

http://lonharris.com/friday-is-my-last-day-at-mahalo

by Lons • 16 years ago

10 9 16 years ago

lonharris.com

Unbelievable! Can't believe how Jason responds to yet another Mahalo employee stepping down...

kyro• 16 years ago

Well, at least it's hosted on Posterous.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

This is clearly a pun on:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/24/how-not-to-handle-a-resigna... (the pastebin link has expired)

and shows that at least they have a sense of humour at Mahalo.

They also have a page on Mahalo dedicated to the incident:

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/from-email/what-is-the-worst-w...

fliph• 16 years ago

Should Mahalo's investors be concerned that the Mahalo CEO, former Mahalo CTO, and now-former Mahalo Community Director are all working for ThisWeekIn? Wouldn't there be a contractual clause preventing Calacanis from hiring away Mahalo staff for his new business?

jasonmcalacanis2• 16 years ago

In both cases our CTO and Community Director were looking to do something new after almost four years and there were people coming up behind them. They got multiple job offers from amazing companies and decided to work at one of my companies... which actually share space with Mahalo.

So, we get to keep them "in the building" and all that knowledge stays here and Mahalo gets it for free!

This is my model: hire great people, invest in them and if I can't keep them past 3-4 years at one company get them a slot at one of my other companies! :-)

jasonmcalacanis2• 16 years ago

.... or help support/start a new company around them and raise an angel round with them (i.e. gdgt.com). :-)

merrick33• 16 years ago

Did your Mahalo investors get a share of thisweekin?

I read a little bit about how Odeo handled it with twitter handled it, just wondering how you did.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

> They got multiple job offers from amazing companies

You mean like yahoo! ;) ?

markjeffrey• 16 years ago

I had 1.4M lined up for another company; I decided to ditch that and come back 'in the building' to work with Jason on ThisWeekIn. So: yeah, this is a good thing, and actually good for Mahalo, counter-intuitive as that may sound on the surface. Makes room for other great people in Mahalo to move up, who may otherwise have moved on.

Blazman• 16 years ago

Well the whole idea behind mahalo is stupid and it only gets traffic because Jason send traffic there. But no one is thinking "I'm going to search for something, gee I'll try mahalo". Jason's link baiting is the main traffic source and mahalo will prolly be out of business at some point in the next 3 years. So maybe they fold thisweekin into mahalo and maybe get the investors something.

Another Mahalo Resignation

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