A historical collection of our writing.
This is a two-part update: first some notes on process and then some additional info on applicants. We managed to complete a first pass of all 616 applications (359 for Analyst and 257 for General Manager). As a next step we will conduct 75 telephone screens (47 for Analyst and 28 for General […] Read more
I have spent most of this morning reading reactions and thoughts about Facebook’s “Open Graph” via Techmeme, Tumblr, Twitter and comments to my post and Fred’s post. All of it has me convinced that the power of the web will be stronger than any one company. That is with one important caveat: what […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Hats off to Mark Zuckerberg and the entire team at Facebook. They are managing that most impressive feat of innovating at scale. They are also incredibly ambitious in what they want to accomplish. The goal seems nothing short of one identity and one graph to “rule them all.” With over 400 million […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A good friend of mine was one of the early practitioners in Europe of complex financial engineering for large corporate clients. I vividly remember a conversation with him on a vacation some 20 years ago, when he told me about a deal that was meant to remove energy cost risk from a company and sell […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So I know that there are lots of problems with the Google book settlement. But yesterday I got to experience the power of digitized books firsthand and it was awesome to behold. My son had to do a project for school where he described five different professions from Colonial times. There were quite […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Since we posted about hiring on Monday, we have received well over 400 applications. Based on a first pass we are completely blown away by the diversity and level of talent! Unfortunately, we don’t stand a chance of giving these applications the attention they deserve if new ones continue to come […] Read more
