Well known engineer and product guy Daniel Raffel returned to Yahoo a year ago to help work on whatever it is that Yahoo intends to be. Fast forward to today and he’s out of there, teaming with Googler Steve Krulewitz on a new startup. The two worked together at Pioneers of the Inevitable on the Songbird media player.
What’s the new startup about? Raffel says it’s too early to tell, and I’m not even sure they’ve fully baked the idea. But they’ve already got the venture capitalists knocking on their door. I’ve had two different ones ask me for introductions in the last several weeks.
I’d say this is yet another bad sign for Yahoo (and Google?). But this is how the startup ecosystem works. People leave big companies to start new ones. Whatever these two are up to, it’ll be interesting.
Daniel Raffel is the CEO of Heavy Bits, producers of Snapguide. Snapguide is a simple, beautiful way to share and view step-by-step how to guides. Discover new things to cook, build, wear, play and more. Create your own guides and share what you love making with your friends on Twitter, Facebook and more. Discuss your interests with other people who share your passions Previously, he was the Director of Product Management at Pioneers of the Inevitable, working on Songbird, an...
Steve is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. He works on the Chrome OS team where he contributes to Chrome Sync and other browser features. Prior to his work on Chrome, Steve worked on the iGoogle team finding new ways to reduce web application latency as well as launching OpenSocial integration. Prior to Google, Steve was a Senior Software Engineer at Songbird working on developing an open source iTunes competitor. He lead the design and implementation...
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