Justin.tv's Emmett Shear makes Freudian slip about selling company

Jackson West — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Kicking off a thread on Hacker News about how to sell a business, Emmett Shear, CTO of live-video startup Justin.tv, accidentally typed the name of his current employer instead of his previous company, Kiko Calendar, which was sold on eBay for $250,000. A sign the company is desperately looking for the exit? Who knows. But it certainly doesn't help to answer part of the original question about flipping a startup:

How would you do it without causing problems (ie people thinking you're up for sale)?

Yahoo millionaire Paul Graham secretly engaged to Jessica Livingston

Jackson West — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Commenters on Hacker News, a Web discussion board, got their panties in a bunch over the weekend over whether to ban stories from Valleywag from the site. The move netted the otherwise obscure site, mostly frequented by graduates of Paul Graham's Y Combinator startup incubator, some coverage from Michael Arrington on TechCrunch. It also netted us a tipster who let us know Hacker News founder Graham, best known for flipping an e-commerce startup to Yahoo more than a decade ago, was engaged to longtime lover Jessica Livingston, author of Founders at Work.

Congratulations, you crazy kids! Mazel tov! The two were reportedly affianced back in October, though it's not clear if a date has been set for the nuptials. Apparently most everyone at Y Combinator knows already, but the couple has otherwise worked to keep it a secret. So, um, guess we're not invited.

(Personal to "Jimmy Wales" on TechCrunch: We'd be happy to send you a milkshake any time, Jimbo).

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Justin.tv's Emmett Shear makes Freudian slip about selling company

Yahoo millionaire Paul Graham secretly engaged to Jessica Livingston