Posts tagged “startup”

After a slow six-month transition, I've stepped back from awe.sm. I remain an advisor, but I'm now a free agent for the first time in a decade, working on tools to make web development easier. Not job hunting, not in stealth mode, just coding.

The PHP vs. C battle was decided by Moore's Law: hardware outpaced complexity. But HTML vs. Obj-C is different. Unlike PHP's server-side slowness, HTML's performance gap is visible to users right now. If a competitor can build a better native experience before Moore's Law saves you, you're done.

I'm leaving Yahoo! to join Snowball Factory as technical lead and employee #1. We're building tools to help content creators use social media more effectively and measure their results. It's several hard problems at once, which is exactly why I'm excited.

I teleported for the first time and the media found out within an hour. We hid in a Beverly Hills hotel while VC fielded billion-dollar offers and hired mercenaries to protect us. Now we're in Nevada, figuring out exactly what I can do and how rich it's going to make us.