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

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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>

c'mon dude

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

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. ;)

Nice obfuscation of your email address.

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.

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.

First of all, congratulations, Sam. You're an inspiration to us all, and I wish you (and Freshplum) the best of luck.

It's definitely not out of line to plug that you're hiring-- my point was that you would be better to avail yourself of the special "hiring for YC company" posts built into the system, and I see that you've done exactly that.

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

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

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.

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.

Coincidentally I ran into this today:

http://blacklocus.com/

I wonder how much FreshPlum will differ.

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.

"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?

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

The email address script was cute :)

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

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

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

Heh ... I wonder why they didn't multiply by 7 (rather than 11)? The frequency counts would have been the same as rolling two dice. Too obvious perhaps? Or maybe that would have attracted the wrong sort of developers :-p

Ardent monopoly fans? heh. I not particularly skilled in javascript but surely multiplying by 7 would return a number between 0 and 6 inclusive? Which is much more like rolling two 7 sided dice numbered from 0 which yields a different value in the pattern.

Catan fans and craps shooters ;)

Oops ... off by 1 again ... story of my life :p

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

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.

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

Congrats man!

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