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I had always wanted to have my own company; I suppose it’s “in the blood.” … It was always in the back of my mind that for any technology shift you’d need tools to help out. I’m really a tools guy, though we tend to call them “apps” nowadays. I was faced with the decision of continuing to work with the great people on my team on a clearly high impact project, living with the “what if” syndrome, or trying to forge my own path. ”Regret Minimization” is what should win out in life, so it did.
–From an interview with the developers of Hype.
“Jumping ship,” so to speak, for a startup isn’t always cast in a positive light by society or by people on the Internet. We in general are very corporation-biased, and a lot of us online take something like leaving Google (after being talented enough to get there in the first place) as some kind of arrogant statement or something against the company itself. It means a lot to hear positive things about the “independent” lifestyle.
