I liked reading this article by my friend Liz Welch about David Karp. While he definitely says some interesting and useful things about his process, I thought this part of the interview was a little weird:
"I don't do much of the hiring anymore. Each department is in charge of hiring its own members. I like autonomous people. I want people who can take a project and figure out how to do it themselves. I don't really care about how things get done. Only that they get done."
I like hearing about young entrepreneurs, but when they say they don't care about how things get done, you wonder how they can maintain that philosophy over a number of years and with various people in authoritarian positions. I chalk it up to youth, but you have to have some pretty amazing trust to say something like that.
I like Tumblr, but will keep on posting with Posterous, at least for the moment. But, I think I may try to manage my email in a new way as he had some good ideas.
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