Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by qeorge on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:07PM (#1898753)

Wow. This changes my opinion of Facebook's webmail offering significantly.

Congrats to Mr. Buchheit and YC, you're both making out like bandits.

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by louismg on Friday November 12, 2010 @03:08PM (#1899047)

Paul is a very smart guy. He is a tech visionary, and is extremely practical financially. He will be a huge boon for YC even more than he already has been, and a loss for Facebook. He previously stated he was not involved in any e-mail platform for Facebook, but the timing is interesting indeed. Great news.

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by pg on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:30PM (#1899356)

I have no idea what Paul was working on at Facebook, but I believe the timing has to be coincidental, because we drove it. The reason this had to get announced today is that interviews for w2011 start on Monday.

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by borism on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:56PM (#1899449)

Well, he was at FB at least 1 year, so there was some vesting I assume? Not entirely incidental, is it?

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by kissickas on Saturday November 13, 2010 @12:38AM (#1900407)

In this interview he says he didn't work on it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1900200

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