After 5 years and two great teams (Yahoo! Personals and the Tiger Team), I’m moving on from Yahoo. The feeling is hard to describe. Naturally in 5 years, you get really comfortable with a place and you get to know a lot of people. In the last week, though, it’s been particularly striking to me to realize how many people have had an impact on me and vice-versa. Five years. Five years of triumphs, celebrations, hard work, stressful times, learning, video games (Halo 1!), and friendships.
OK, there are some things I won’t miss. Like trying to park my car in the morning and gcc 2.95. But then there are a lot of other things and people that I will miss.
Where am I going? After a brief vacation (this weekend!), I will start at VMware on Monday. You’ll be hearing about that shortly…
Bummer that you’re leaving, I thought you were just leaving Tiger. Bummer too that Leif and I just bought Fusion too, we should’ve waited until you started.
In any case, best of luck there!
Congratulations on flying the coup!
Just remember: now that you’ve left Yahoo! I’m free to recruit you 24/7. Once you are rich off of VMware IPO options, I expect you to join the other economic volunteers at Google!
PS: I expect a free copy of VMware Fusion in the mail as compensation for not yet getting a referral bonus.
How dare you leave… But, good luck at the new place, VMware is doing cool stuff (Fusion rocks).
Cool. Congrats on the move to VMWare. You’ve been one hell of an asset to Yahoo…
Wow, there’s fewer & fewer people I still know at Yahoo… Best of luck, Marc!
Good luck, and keep in touch!
Damnit, why is it that the only people leaving Yahoo! lately seem to be talented and useful? When will the dumb, useless people start leaving?
Sad to hear you’re leavingk, but congrats and have fun! I’m sure we’ll cross paths again.