Re:Jessica Livingston
by nostrademons on Monday November 16, 2015 @03:42PM
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That's not what the article says:
"Jessica and I decided one night to start it, and the next day we recruited my friends Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell."
At least in the article, it's pretty clear that they decided to start the company together, and then brought on a couple other friends. (I've read elsewhere that the actual story was more like Jessica was looking for jobs at VC firms, the VCs were dragging their feet, and so PG was like "Fuck it. We'll start our own.")
"Brought her on to handle marketing at YC" is something you're injecting into the text, it's not anything that they wrote.
"Jessica and I decided one night to start it, and the next day we recruited my friends Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell."
At least in the article, it's pretty clear that they decided to start the company together, and then brought on a couple other friends. (I've read elsewhere that the actual story was more like Jessica was looking for jobs at VC firms, the VCs were dragging their feet, and so PG was like "Fuck it. We'll start our own.")
"Brought her on to handle marketing at YC" is something you're injecting into the text, it's not anything that they wrote.