Engine Yard Co-Founder leaves / big news end of month

by rmoriz • 16 years ago

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rmoriz• 16 years ago

so everyone wants to know: Is it VMWare?

fictorial• 16 years ago

I first learned of Redis by watching Ezra give a lightning talk about a database "by his friend from Italy" (hi Antirez!) who is now working on Redis at vmware.

So, perhaps you are correct!

bbatsell• 16 years ago

He's moving to Portland [1]; VMWare does not have any offices in the state of Oregon, so that does not seem likely.

[1] http://twitter.com/ezmobius/status/20515487977

dminor• 16 years ago

Seems like a lot of hackers moving to Portland lately!

davidu• 16 years ago

The news would likely be about Ezra, and not Engine Yard.

He no doubt has a confidentiality provision as a part of his employment agreement, not to mention in the separation agreement I'm sure they had him sign. Even without the legal risk, it'd just be poor form to talk about EY's future activities.

mark_l_watson• 16 years ago

After reading lots of useful nginx/ruby/rails stuff for years on Ezra's blog, I met him at merb camp a few years ago - a cool and interesting guy -- I wish him well!

ezmobius• 16 years ago

thanks Mark

voodootikigod• 16 years ago

my bet on next step is opscode.

allan_• 16 years ago

his "PHAT gig" may be an anagram for path(.com)

dylanz• 16 years ago

If you ever need a job in Portland Ezra, let me know :)

robk• 16 years ago

This could easily be read that EY was acquired. Not many people quit their job and announce they're buying a house unless there is a liquidity event in their personal timeline.

rdl2• 16 years ago

It being almost exactly 4 years in makes it seem a lot more likely that he's fully vested and is now looking at doing something new.

I personally think some mix of time-based and milestone-based vesting would make sense for founders. Basically, you get some of your equity for reaching product market fit on various metrics, some for profitability, and some for scaling. A lot of startup founders would move on after reaching one of those milestones. If the company is doing very well, but you just don't want to be in the "scaling" role, you could accept longer vesting of the remaining stock in a different capacity, maybe one where you can work on another project full-time.

Engine Yard Co-Founder leaves / big news end of month

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