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June 5, 2007

Way To Go, Richard!

My good friend, longtime business partner, best man at my wedding and all around great guy Richard has just accepted a hot new job.

With Microsoft.

(Yes, those were flying pigs you saw last Friday.)

First, the job: Richard is going to be a Senior Analyst with Atlas, a Web analytics company based here in Seattle. It's one of those kick-ass jobs where he gets to apply his love of stats, knowledge of the Internet, and overall business hoo-ha to a lot of really interesting problems. In short, it's perfect. And it's in the International District, as well, which means he can a) have great Chinese for lunch every day and b) avoid crossing the 520 floating bridge like the rest of us software stiffs.

Ah, yes. So. Software. See, Atlas is owned by this little company called aQuantive, and aQuantive, as you may have heard, was just bought by Microsoft for roughly $6Bn.

What makes this funny is that Richard, more than any other person (save maybe Khan), has sworn up and down over the years that he would never, ever, never, ever, really, honestly, no-I-mean-it work for the Evil Empire. Part of this stems from the fact that he's a lifelong Sun fan (I mean his license plate says, "SOLARIS" ... and it's not a reference to the George Clooney film), part of it is that he's a Mac guy, and part of it is that, well, he just doesn't, uh, love Windows. Richard has had a lot of fun with me (especially on Confab) since I got my job here in 2005, and now that he's employee 1,228,945 (or whatever), well, I guess it proves that you Never Say Never.

Dude, I'm thrilled for you. Welcome to the Collective. Way to go!

(But expect a lot - and I mean a lot of cheap jokes over the coming months and years.)

Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 5, 2007 10:48 AM. Posted to Cool | MSFT.

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