Interview: Threadless CTO Harper Reed Heads to Rackspace

It's weird that Jeffrey Kalmikoff (cofounder) left for Digg earlier this month and now the CTO's leaving, too.

Especially at a company that's had years of seemingly happy, noneventful growth.

Guess it could be just a coincidence, but I wonder if it's not something else (purchase, etc).

How great would it be to be able to say this:

"the goals i had set for myself were all accomplished. I was done. We had accomplished a lot and since threadless image was in a great place – i was able to exit without feeling like there was more to do."

Congratulations to Harper. Met him briefly at bar camp here in Chicago last year.

I'll never forget when some unfortunate fellow let slip that he did SEO for a living and Harper just ripped into him for "gaming the web". It was a sight to behold.

Rackspace is on a roll.

Kristen Nicole sat down with Threadless CTO Harper Reed yesterday, just ahead of his announcement of his move to Rackspace. Harper is a prolific serial entrepreneur. Good read.