You're right, but what you're looking for is someone who joined a start up early and grew the sales team successfully and now wants to go back go an early stage start up. Some people like building and working with early stage companies
One of the most interesting comments during the Q and A was Aaron recommended people don't be blinded by resumes (paraphrasing) "Just because people work at google, they might have 10k people there, doesn't mean they all [google employees\ are qualified or a good fit to join an early stage start up"
This is not a marketing ploy and has nothing to do what our company does. This was a bet between friends, and everyone I told this story to got a kick out of it. That, plus the fact I hoped someone on HN could help me solve this puzzle led us to post the story.
The photo used in the story is not her. I am 100% certain. The photo in the blog is a picture of a random girl who lives in another part of the country, has different physical attributs, and is a different age than the original girl in question
@asymetric - I am not an engineer, I don't know how a lot of these things work. Rather than critique, I would appreciate a better analogy that I can use in the future
They knew what high school because it was a slip up. If you knew these guys, they aren't the kind who would just sit there and look at pictures. They had some software running.
How would they have gotten my GPS location? And how would they have figured out which one was her house. I was in her neighborhood and stopped multiple places that were 'significant' to her as a kid. Any of them could have been her house. And I wasn't at anyone for more than 60 seconds