David Ulevitch

No, I gave my last one to someone I was babysitting for when in high school. He probably would have preferred a playboy instead of playstation. :-)

I would probably not hire you at this point in your career since being cheap is not my goal — Finding great candidates is.

That said, no candidate is ever perfect, there’s always something wrong. The key is to find people who you think will be great team members and who can shift into whatever role you need them to occupy at the time.

But I’m stoked to hear you are working hard to become more awesome, I’m trying to do the same. :-)

Google made a very expensive deal with Level3 to get those IPs. They were already controlled by Level(3) and have been sub-assigned to Google.

Even more impressive is that the block they came from 8/8 (as we refer to it) is a block that had previously almost never been allowed to have smaller announcements made in the routing table, but Google got Level(3) to bend on this policy.

Anyways, we’re sticking with our IPs, been using them for so long. They were in our initial allocation from ARIN, the organization that manages names and numbers for North America: http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=208.67.222.222

Pretty Much.

Yes on both counts. Without a doubt.

The faster we hire, the faster we can make it happen. So consider applying if you’re a good fit for OpenDNS. :-)

We have London and Amsterdam right now. Our next site will be in Germany. By covering the major exchange points in Europe (LINX in London, AMS-IX in Amsterdam and DE-CIX in Germany) we will be providing some of the most robust coverage possible.

We’re always looking to expand our presence, but this gives us low-latency to both clients asking us questions and lots of authoritative servers around the world. :-)

A tuna melt at the Flower Market Cafe on 6th and Brannan.

Depends on your ISP. You’d certainly be better off hitting Toronto and routing directly to our NYC datacenter than to hit Vancouver and then Seattle.

We do see a bunch of Canadian traffic hit Seattle, but Chicago and New York do get some traffic from Canada.

Depending on your ISP, we might be able to fix it without putting a node in Canada — We can often adjust the BGP routes, advertisements and metrics to impact routing on other networks.

I assume you mean “authoritative” and the answer is yes, I’ve thought about it.

If I do it, my hope is to do it in a dramatically new and innovative way. And unfortunately, to do it in a way that’s non-obvious and where I can protect some of my IP since I watch lots of other companies constantly copy me.

It’s the same or better. I hope my employees are always cautious. That said, there is a building-wide Yammer network and I’ve noticed the conversations on there have dropped dramatically.

And of course, I like having TechCrunch in the office because I personally like @arrington and others on staff.

Unfortunately, it’s important that this issue remain confidential. It provides signaling to third-parties I’m not prepared to share with them.

This is referencing a remark I made on twitter a few days ago. And I shouldn’t have written that tweet like that. My real beef is with how inexperienced candidates make decisions about what offers to accept.

First, there are indeed a lot of underwhelming candidates, but I don’t care if they are overpaid or not since I’m not competing for them.

Now to my comment and to answer you, I think the market is inflated.

When someone who has worked for a long time is looking to switch jobs, they understand that there are many factors involved in where you decide to work, many that are not related to salary. I’m referring to things like quality of team members, commute time, work hours, equity, work environment, etc. So when I recruit these candidates I make sure they understand where we fall in all these categories. Often times, if we fall short on salary, we certainly always try to exceed in other areas. Experienced candidates know this.

Certainly I try to be competitive, but sometimes in SF there are companies who have raised ungodly amounts who offer more money than I can. That’s a fact of life I can live with. I know that’s how the world works.

Where this frustrates me is with candidates who are right out of school and who have no experience or basis for which to evaluate companies they should work for. They are forced to rely on metrics like “times on techcrunch” and ultimately salary. Even when it comes to equity, most candidates are not sophisticated enough to understand that the number of options being granted is not how you compare equity offers.

I get frustrated when an inexperienced candidate looks at a 200 person company against my 25 person company, says they will pay $10K more and takes that job because I won’t match their offer. That’s a stupid reason to take the other offer when there are so many other things that matter so much more in making that decision.

I can live with a candidate not accepting my offer, but it’s frustrating when it’s for the wrong reasons and they don’t yet know it.

I should probably also do a post about about how shitty companies often get more capital invested and the employees get more equity than at great companies, but that’s for another time.

Nope, I was at the office from 7:30am until 10:20pm today… but I do like TJs. ;-)

I would love (love) to see that. And if I can make it happen, you can be sure that we will do it.

That’s a tough question to answer. We have a node in Miami which gets us pretty close to most South American networks.

If we put a node in Brazil, most other South American Internet users will still travel up to Miami and back down to Brazil to reach us. That’s because the peering links between South American carriers, which are largely state-run monopolies, are not very good on the SA continent.

I think this situation is changing, but for now, in order to reach the most people in South America in the most cost effective way, we’re in Miami.