Busted! Who would of thought Hacker News would have been the leading source of investigative journalism.
I cannot verify that they worked at the same company from LinkedIn though?
However interview can be found here (as per submitted blog post): http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/01/17/stop-cluttering-your-i...
The creator of Hopper, Joshua Gross, tells TNW why he built it:
<blockquote>I found that I emailed myself links and pictures
constantly—whether I’m at another computer, at work, or
mobile. I’d always lose these items in my inbox, amongst
other new mail. Rather than continue to suffer with this
really poor solution, I wanted a quick place to drop any
temporary snippet of content quickly, but still be able to
go back and search for it afterwards.