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Facebook's Paul Buchheit talks about Facebook, Google and his new gig

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"It's entertaining"

He has a very unique perspective on that situation.

Exciting that he is coming to Ycombinator full time. Expecting some interesting Ask PB threads in the future.

Q: Do you have any thoughts about the contacts sharing spat between Google and Facebook? A: It's entertaining. Q: How did the offer from Y Combinator come about?

Either the interview was edited because they couldn't get anything else out of Paul on this topic, or the interviewer was skipping class the day they taught how to ask follow-up questions at journalism school.

I think a two-word answer should tell the interviewer pretty clearly "it's not something I want to comment on more than this".

Of course. But a lot of important and/or entertaining journalism has resulted from interviewers finding ways to get the interviewees to divulge more than they had initially intended to.

I just thought that the sudden segue into a completely different topic without following up on the initial question was pretty funny!

Unfortunately not too much info in there beside the fact that he didn't work on project titan.

Does this mean Paul won't be angel investing outside of YC?

"move fast and break stuff mentality"

I like that Slogan.

It's awesome until you're trying to build stuff for clients on their platform.

I read in another article today that a lot of Googlers are interested in switching to Facebook, reason being the possibility of considerable financial gain post Facebook's IPO.

I think Paul has written about his thoughts about [money](http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-to-do-with-you... "Paul Buchheit: What to do with your millions") before, just curious to know if money was at all in his calculations this time around

I wish Paul would have elaborated more on the Google/Facebook pissing contest. Having worked at both companies at the level Paul has, I would imagine he has insight into the personalities that are pressing the issues. Then again, it looks like Paul got to work on what he wanted to, which didn't involve this new conflict.

Edit: Or maybe confidentiality agreements with each company prevent him from giving a public opinion right now.

More importantly, Paul recently fixed FriendFeed's search.

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