Ask YC: How do you track down the key person at a Yahoo-swallowed company?

5 pointsGiantCrayon3 comments

How do you track down the key person at a Yahoo-swallowed company to do some five-minute job that they're supposed to do anyway? I'm desperate to get a flickr Comm'l API key which I applied for in Oct.

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I knew a guy who was being ignored by a Big East-Coast Technology Company before email was commonplace (no need to say "Who"). After getting no response to his pleas for a similar 5-minute job that they were contractually obligated to do, he sent the manager of the department a brand-new art deco trash can. And a note saying, "Since so many of my requests have ended up in your trash can, I thought maybe you could use a new one." It worked.

That should've been the most embarrassing moment for the dept manager.

You should've sent it to their CEO. He would've given u a lot of freebies for helping him rectify an error that might have been common.

I just did a quick search on LinkedIn and found the woman who appears to be the current GM of Flickr. She may be able to point you in the right direction:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/kakul

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