Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by swah on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:25PM (#1898845)

Is Y Combinator a full-time job? How long did Paul stayed on Facebook, a couple months? This is odd no?

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by cliffchang on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:28PM (#1898865)

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee...

FF was acquired about 15 months ago, so that's about how long Paul was at Facebook.

Also, I imagine being a partner in YC is very much a fulltime job.

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by jayp on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:31PM (#1898882)

rtm and trevor blackwell have other fulltime commitments.

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by pg on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:28PM (#1899346)

PB is going to work full-time though, at least in the spiky sense that Harj and Jessica and I do.

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by Harj on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:43PM (#1899406)

certainly feels pretty full-time to me

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by blasdel on Friday November 12, 2010 @07:33PM (#1899841)

Did you put in some chips to become a partner?

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by logicalmoron on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:29PM (#1898872)

Hey Swah, I pinged Anthony (the writer of the article) to get his butt in here and answer your questions. You might get a direct answer more quickly if you comment directly on the site or email him, though.

In the mean time, thanks for reading!

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by swah on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:39PM (#1899389)

Thanks, but I find this a much better place to discuss than in blog comments :)

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Re:Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator by anthonyha on Friday November 12, 2010 @03:02PM (#1899020)

What Cliff said. Paul didn't stay at Facebook very long, but it was more than a couple months.

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