GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/github-hires-former-bitnami-co-founder-erica-brescia-as-coo/

by CrankyBear • 7 years ago

120 31 7 years ago

The link doesn't work. Probably because of the WordPress issue discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157882

mastazi• 7 years ago

And 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

throwawaythat1• 7 years ago

Didn'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.h... talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?

onion2k• 7 years ago

How 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• 7 years ago

Additionally 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• 7 years ago

Huh, I had missed that. Hope it worked out well! I knew Daniel back when we were both working with Tcl.

ztratar• 7 years ago

Would you rather be COO of Github, or a VP at VMWare?

warp_factor4• 7 years ago

do you imply that it's better to be COO of Github? Because I would disagree with that.

user5994461• 7 years ago

Github was acquired by Microsoft, so it's just gonna be a VP at Microsoft.

wolco• 7 years ago

Both roles sound great from my prespective

chimen• 7 years ago

It may be part of the decision that let do Bitnami being acquired.

ajaurio• 7 years ago

VMware acquires Heptio - Kris Nova quits.

VMware acquires Bitnami - Ara Pulido and Erica Brescia quit.

What's wrong with VMware?

gkoberger• 7 years ago

Maybe 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• 7 years ago

Yeah VMWare may get a reputation as the firm to call when founders are feeling restless.

joewadcan• 7 years ago

Erica did a great job building up Bitnami, so I'm pretty pumped to see her + Nat at the helm of GitHub.

dmor• 7 years ago

Erica 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!

pbiggar• 7 years ago

Congrats to Erica! Phenomenal executive - looking forward to seeing how she moves GitHub forward.

koolhead17• 7 years ago

Lucky Github. Erica is an incredible founder, met her few times in early days of Bitnami at OSCON, Portland.

GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

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