Posterous

Summer 2008 · Acquired

Dead simple blogs by email

Location: San Francisco, US

Team size: 11

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About

Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controls to share selectively across multiple platforms.

Founders

Sachin AgarwalFounder/CEO
Cofounder of GrowSF. We're working to fix San Francisco. Previously: cofounder and CEO of Posterous. Before that, engineer at Apple. Posterous was acquired by Twitter, where I was a PM on consumer initiatives for 4 years. I shipped the photos experience (camera with editing/filters, photos in the timeline), updated profiles, completely rebuilt Direct Messages, and more. I later joined Lyft to work on social impact projects.
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Brett GibsonFounder
Managing Partner at Initialized Capital. Previously wrote software at YC, and founded YC cos Posterous, Posthaven, Slinkset.
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Garry TanFounder
President & CEO, Y Combinator. Creator of Bookface, designer in residence and then partner at Y Combinator (2011-2015), YC S08 Posterous cofounder (acq by Twitter), cofounder of Posthaven, early Palantir employee (designed the logo, built major product teams). Previously founder of Initialized Capital (>$3B assets under management seed fund)
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