Friday is My Last Day at Mahalo
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From: Lon Harris <lonharris@mahalo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 21:46:17 -0700
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Subject: Friday is My Last Day at Mahalo
Hello Team Mahalo - I'm assuming by now most of you have heard the news, particularly as we told the community during tonight's "This Week in Mahalo," but just to make sure...Jason and Mark have generously offered me the position of Creative Director of ThisWeekIn.com, and I have accepted. So, Friday will mark my last day as Mahalo.com's Director of Community. Of course, I will still be in the office every day, and available should anyone have questions or need anything from me. But my attention will now be largely, if not entirely, focused on ThisWeekIn Studios on a day-to-day basis. So if there's anything you need to run by me or loose ends we need to tie up, please bring it to my attention whenever you can. It has been a distinct pleasure working with all of you, and I can honestly say that in my 3+ years working for Mahalo, I've never felt as confident as I do today that the project will be a grand success. Thanks to all the developers, admins, salespeople, chefs, designers, product managers, CEOs, directors of strategy and, of course, my fellow community team members for all that you have taught me, for being such positive, productive collaborators and generally for making it such a pleasure to come in to work each and every day. I'll still be seated in your midst, so this isn't really goodbye, but it felt like a good opportunity to let you all know how thankful I am for your tireless efforts, and how proud I am to have been a part of such a talented team. Also, I'm buying my stock options, and I'm pretty sure I still get to come on this Vegas trip, so feel free to keep right on kicking butt and taking names. Thanks again. See you tomorrow.Lon
8 comments
Matthew Selznick said...
Congratulations, Lon! I always thought that when you finally left Mahalo, it would be to do more stuff with entertainment / content creation, so the move to ThisWeekIn is like an ancient prophesy coming true. Except without the lightning, the portents, and the pig farmer embarking on a grand quest. But you get me.And hey! You get to keep your parking pass!
tobewan said...
Congrats, Lon! This feels like a completely logical next step for you. Very interested to see where ThisWeekIn goes
Anthony Colecchi said...
You are one of my favorite things about ThisWeekIn. You are going to turn that into an even bigger success than it already is. Congrats and Mahalo will miss you!
Enrique Gutierrez said...
$20 says TechCrunch doesn't post this. Lon, congrats on the move - glad you're still around the office. ThisWeekIn is definitely benefiting from bringing you aboard. Good times.