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Posterous

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Dead simple blogs by email

Summer 200811 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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About

Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controls to share selectively across multiple platforms.

Founders ยท 2

Sachin Agarwal
Sachin AgarwalFounder/CEO
AppleTwitter

Cofounder of GrowSF. We're working to fix San Francisco. Previously: cofounder and CEO of Posterous. Before that, engineer at Apple. Posterous was acquired by Twitter, where I was a PM on consumer initiatives for 4 years. I shipped the photos experience (camera with editing/filters, photos in the timeline), updated profiles, completely rebuilt Direct Messages, and more. I later joined Lyft to work on social impact projects.

Brett Gibson
Brett GibsonFounder

Managing Partner at Initialized Capital. Previously wrote software at YC, and founded YC cos Posterous, Posthaven, Slinkset.

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