Introducing Jay
In early August, Mark Hendrickson from TechCrunch interviewed me for an article he was writing on hosted white-label social networking services. Once he got the idea he summed up the company as “You’re a one-man Ning.”
I immediately corrected him, “I’ve got a second person starting tomorrow.” Then I went on to explain all the ways that our product and goals were different. That second person is Jay Laney and we’ve essentially run as a two-person shop ever since.
Jay looks like this:
He’s a Graduate of O’Reilly where he used to be Lead Engineer for their online group. We worked together there on a lot of things, including a social network for alpha geeks that never quite got off the ground.
He’s also a graduate of Marc Hedlund, having spent time getting Wesabe established.
He’s also responsible for a slew of CrowdVine improvements: OpenID, backups, our deploy system, this blog, friends from other CrowdVines, and a bunch more behind the scenes.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Oh, you can’t graduate from Marc Hedlund. Oh, no.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Marc, we have shirts and everything.
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 am
[...] Jay put together an official CrowdVine blog. It’s already got a nice post where I explain who Jay is. [...]
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:33 pm
GOOMH – it just doesn’t have that same, well…you know.
I think there are several more interesting photos available here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/jaylaney
A Web 2.0 company called Sausage Corp. might be nice.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:29 am
[...] out world, Tony and Jay are working together: Introducing Jay Sunday, November 4, 2007 11:28am [...]
November 12th, 2007 at 10:42 am
I like the caption for the photo. :)
November 27th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
[...] my first paying customer. 11. Got shat on by a bird while closing my first big deal. 12. Convinced someone to work with me. 13. Wrote the company values (Bias for action. Solve valuable problems. Love [...]
August 6th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
[...] is Jay Laney’s one year anniversary at CrowdVine. I was rereading the blog post I wrote, Introducing Jay, and noticed that it wasn’t written until November. We had such a backlog of work that it [...]