Ask HN: Famous entrepreneurs/developers who started on college newspapers?
I'm an alumnus of San Jose State University now working at an arts and technology nonprofit in SF. Over the last two years I led an overhaul of the Spartan Daily's online presence, building a new site, new workflow tools, and new technology platform from scratch to put us on a solid foundation for at least the next ten years.
I'm graduating this year, and we're looking for someone to take over for me, but finding a person in the journalism department with the requisite tech skills is difficult.
The Spartan Daily offers the only thing close to a real-world tech job you can find on the SJSU campus, and we pay our senior staff members, so we think it should be easy to recruit from the CS department.
However, to make the position more enticing, I want to compile a list of (relatively) famous programmers or entrepreneurs who got their start working on their college newspaper.
The only one I know is Yehuda Katz, one of the core contributors to Rails, but I know there are others. Can any of you help me out?
Also, if you're an SJSU student interested in the position or know somebody who might be, please get in touch, my email is in my profile.