{"id":164,"date":"2010-09-29T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-09-29T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:11:14","slug":"leaving-last-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2010\/09\/leaving-last-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Last.fm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent 3.43 years at Last.fm<\/a>, which seems almost like a lifetime. For a long time, I couldn’t ever imagine leaving; every morning I would wake up excited to go and face new challenges and do fascinating new things. In the last 6-12 months so much has changed, as Last.fm gradually slips out of being a startup to being a company that, for better or for worse, has to make some money. I will certainly think twice before working for a company that has anything to do with the music industry… it’s a pain of a situation.<\/p>\n

I’ve babysat the wonderful creation that is Last.fm through launches<\/a> (both expected and unexpected), crashes (always unexpected), overheatings<\/a> (and break-ins, and power failures<\/a>… All the kind of thing that should never happen to a datacentre) and plenty of blood, sweat and tears.<\/p>\n

It’s been an amazing experience, working with some of the most amazing people I have ever met (some of which have come and gone), but it’s time for me to help another startup through getting up at 4am to fix databases<\/a> and exciting scaling questions.<\/p>\n

And that will be Etsy<\/a>; another website that has an awesome product that I love, plenty of traffic and graphs that point upwards and a bunch of guys who are passionate and have an awesome method of working. I’m really excited about getting involved and learning things again, as well as enabling a different group of passionate users go about their day to day business. I’ll still be in London, but popping to NY on occasion.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope the next 3.43 years will be just as exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent 3.43 years at Last.fm, which seems almost like a lifetime. For a long time, I couldn’t ever imagine leaving; every morning I would wake up excited to go and face new challenges and do fascinating new things. In the last 6-12 months so much has changed, as Last.fm gradually slips out of being … Continue reading Leaving Last.fm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioRW-2E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}