Back in April, when I was leaving Apple, I was looking at Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix.
Twitter didn’t work for a host of reasons, but Netflix made a compelling offer. I liked a bunch of the people I met, and I thought they had a rosy future ahead. I knew they’d face some challenges renewing their streaming contracts, but I assumed management had a plan in place.
In retrospect, I cannot believe how lucky I am that I’m at Facebook and not there. I’m sure if I were there I’d have found something to be positive about, and I’d have learned plenty and made tons of great friends, but it’s hard to imagine a change that could’ve been better for me than coming to Facebook, and, man, am I glad my company’s value didn’t just go from 300 to 128!
I suppose I should wait until users calm down about the new newsfeed/ticker before I spike the football :-)
