Man I know this feeling ... would have loved to have had an angel fly in last second on my second company. :) On the other hand, that was when I wrote my first novel which probably would not have happened otherwise, so ... :)
Extra interesting interview since Gowalla just integrated Foursquare (!) Josh explains why he did that -- the 'turn around and hug the bear that's chasing you' move.
I had 1.4M lined up for another company; I decided to ditch that and come back 'in the building' to work with Jason on ThisWeekIn. So: yeah, this is a good thing, and actually good for Mahalo, counter-intuitive as that may sound on the surface. Makes room for other great people in Mahalo to move up, who may otherwise have moved on.
My quitting Mahalo was in no way a comment on either Mahalo or Jason -- it was about me, my life, and stuff going on in it: and what i wanted to do next.
Jason is telling it like it is. And I'm totally stoked about ThisWeekIn and it fits much better with where I want to do -- and I'm frankly delighted to be working with Jason on it, given both our friendship and his experience. And he has a gun to my head and made me write this :)
(In all seriousness: JCal is telling the truth, I promise.)