Sam Odio: I Left Facebook to Rejoin Y Combinator With a New Start-up

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by razin • 15 years ago

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nick007• 15 years ago

Glad 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 </plug>

nikcub• 15 years ago

c'mon dude

edit: i missed that you are the same company. plug away

borski2• 15 years ago

EDIT: 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• 15 years ago

Nice obfuscation of your email address.

michael_dorfman2• 15 years ago

If 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• 15 years ago

Hey 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.

davidw• 15 years ago

In this thread, people can ask him question, something that can't be done on job postings.

rdl• 15 years ago

Is the Olive Garden reference a metaphor or other abstract thing like Fresh Plum? I thought it was a restaurant chain in the US.

dpritchett2• 15 years ago

I 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• 15 years ago

I 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.

iqster3• 15 years ago

The email address script was cute :)

ed209• 15 years ago

or just send an email to 0@,1@,2@,3@,4@...22@ :)

borski2• 15 years ago

Assuming they won't notice that is probably not the right way to go.

Also, 22@ might be a little high. Just sayin'

dpritchett2• 15 years ago

Fun, too! I just spent a nice few minutes in the Chrome debug console brute forcing it.

mitjak• 15 years ago

I suck at stats but isn't the expected value of Math.random E=0.5? Which makes the result Ex11x2 = 11?

EDIT: I do suck. The expected value of Math.random*11 is 5.5, which floors to 5. Thus the total is 10.

dangrossman• 15 years ago

Coincidentally I ran into this today:

http://blacklocus.com/

I wonder how much FreshPlum will differ.

seto28• 15 years 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• 15 years ago

Petsales/Tinycoupon (W09). Cofounder was @breck, who has also launched a new startup in a later batch.

jdp23• 15 years ago

Congrats 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• 15 years ago

Congrats man!

sonsryan• 15 years ago

Congrats to Sam and Nick. I have no doubt that these two will kick ass.

Sam Odio: I Left Facebook to Rejoin Y Combinator With a New Start-up

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