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Moving on and thanks

Just as Posterous has prospered, grown and changed, so to is it time for me to evolve my role. Effective today, I'm ending my day-to-day development with Posterous and moving into an advisory role. Though my day-to-day may change, my faith in the team and the product is unchanged and unwavering. Posterous is in good hands and on the right track to fulfilling its potential. I am proud of what we've built together and look forward to the future with anticipation to see where the team and you, the users, take this very special community. 

My greatest passions lie with the early stage of building world-changing consumer products. To that end, I've decided to join the team at Y Combinator as a designer-in-residence and help the dozens of top pre-seed startups in the newest Winter 2011 batch reach their potential through excellent user experience.

I am greatly thankful to our team, investors and most of all our users for all the amazing work and adventures. Thanks for all of your support.  

Posted over 2 years ago

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Geoff said
You and Sachin both did a fantastic job engaging with early Posterous users. You won't need anyone to wish you good luck at Y Combinator - it's abundantly clear that you'll be an exceptionally good fit there.

Best wishes though!

Kirk van Gorkom said
Congratulations on following your passion Garry!

Watching Posterous grow has been exciting and I'm sure stepping back like this wasn't an easy decision. I wish you all the success in the world at Y Combinator.

Jason Bentley said
Wow. Good luck, Garry!
jean said
Garry, I am so thrilled for you!! Congrats to you on all of your accomplishments wih posterous! I can't wait to hear another your next adventures!! :)
Geoff Maddox said
Wow, congrats, Garry! All the best of luck in your new / future role!
Julien Genestoux said
Must have been a tough decision, but I'm sure you'll do more than awesome at YC!
Zee M Kane said
huge - good luck man. See you for drinks in Feb, will be in SF.
Violet Mae Lim said
Congrats and best of luck to you!
Sheer Zed said
Good luck Garry. Thank you very much for the work you have done on Posterous. I love using it and think it's excellent. All the best.
Sherman Li said
good luck my friend. you're brilliant and a class act. let's chat when you get the chance... :)
Raj Ramamurthy said
It was wonderful working at Posterous with you. Good luck with your new role!
Chris Sparno said
Garry, thanks for all you have done here and best wishes for your future success. I hope you continue to maintain a presence here and keep in touch with all of us.
jason yeh said
congrats on the move man - you & sachin have grown the product and business immensely since i first met you guys in Cambridge on your demo day. you guys struck me as a team passionate about what they were building, and you have built a fantastic product. goodluck at YC, and I wish continued success to the Posterous crew!
Nischal Shetty said
All the best with this new path that you've chosen. I'm a little sad to see you not being able to take up a bigger role at Posterous. I've been following you probably from the first few weeks when Posterous started and you're kind of an idol for me. If I'm able to do even 10% of what you have done I would consider myself successful.

Posterous and us Posterors are gonna miss you a lot. Hope you still end up replying to our feedbacks and comments on Posterous :)

Justin Thiele said
Congrats Garry!

You've helped build an amazing base at Posterous. I'm sure it was a really tough decision to change directions, but you have to follow your passion. Posterous is in good hands and you'll be amazing as an official part of the YC team.

BTW, heading to SXSW this year?

Cheers!

Justin

sushant said
Always good to move on to new things. Have fun with the new role!
Greg Tracy said
brutal loss for posterous... best of luck.
Paul Stamatiou said
Best of luck Garry! Let's meetup for coffee in the mission sometime.
Joe Ross said
Congrats, you've done an amazing thing here with Sachin and the team. Best of luck!
Matt Tanase said
sounds awesome hope we can catch up soon!
Gerard ZA said
Good luck with your new venture
Serena Lee said
All the best Garry! You and among others changed my life with the opportunity as a college mobilizer for Posterous. (:
Pete Gilbert said
There goes the neighborhood!!

Seriously though, best if luck and thanks so much for this great platform. Your interactions with early users is the service made it feel like home.

Jared Miller said
Good luck to you buddy. I know you'll do great things for the people at Y Combinator.
sascha assbach said
all the best to you Garry, thanks for your great work! Always appreciated the replies you sent. This is part of what made me love posterous.
Tarun Varma said
Tough decision but great to follow your passion. Good luck Garry - posterous rocks and we want more of the same :)
Ryan Clarke said
Wow! Shocker! Hey, I don't know you personally, but I love what you've done here with Posterous and your posts and twitter feed.

Look forward to seeing what you do at YC.

Stay up!

Villa Toscana said
Your passion is very lovely!
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Gavin Cook said
Happy to hear you are following your passion, we all do our best work when we do!
Pat said
Best of luck to you, Garry. You will do amazing things!!
Guild Chatter =] said
NOOOooo!!!

Don't leave me here!

=]

Brandon Price said
Great, does this mean I have to start calling it "PAH-sterous" now?
swurvradio said
That Sux...we Just met :(
Aviraj Saluja said
Garry, it's great to know that you're moving from one fantastic place to another. You know you have been - and will continue to be - a huge inspiration for me. I want to thank you, along with the rest of the team, for having given us a platform like Posterous.

Good luck with your next project. I know you're going to kill it at YC. Cheers!

Ovidiu Ribu said
Good luck Garry. Thank you very much for the work you have done on Posterous. I love using it and think it's excellent. All the best.
Rodney Echols said
Best of luck man. I can respect the passion.
Doctors Global said
Doctors Global wishes you success in your new assignment. Would look forward to learn a lesson or two from you on better designs!
snowlobster said
Congratulations and best of luck to you, Garry. Thanks for making Posterous a better place!
David Bennett said
In common with many people, I am sure, I have seen many start-ups. Some of them are very focused; some of them see very corporate; some of them seem very dense.

One of them - from the very beginning - seemed accessible and light and airy and easy to get into and exciting. That is Posterous - and thanks to you Garry for making it so.

Tony Wright said
Holy crap-- what a dream opportunity (the YC thing). /respect

Congrats on getting Posterous to such a great spot-- you've built a juggernaut that is admired by gazillions of people.

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