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

[nick007]

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>

[borski]

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. ;)

[rdl]

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

[donaq]

Nice obfuscation of your email address.

[nikcub]

c'mon dude

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

[michael_dorfman]

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.

[dangrossman]

Coincidentally I ran into this today:

http://blacklocus.com/

I wonder how much FreshPlum will differ.

[jdp23]

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.

[seto28]

"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?

[tomhoward]

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

[iqster]

The email address script was cute :)

[dpritchett]

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

[ed209]

or just send an email to 0@,1@,2@,3@,[email protected]@ :)

[sonsryan]

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

[sshadmand]

Congrats man!