Comments on: A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:29:36 +0000

I think the same as Martin…I tried a few tools, but Lookeen is the one and only for me!!

By: Martin P.

Martin P. — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:53:48 +0000

I use Lookeen instead. No “Starwars UI” but just a plain and damn fast tool. The one and only successor of Lookout in my opinion.

http://www.lookeen.com

Cheers

By: jason d

jason d — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:13:15 +0000

wow. i hope my next start up is high profile enough to inspire such debate (and anger, which is just plain confusing since we’re talking about a startup that makes software that hopefully makes your life better…for free…and you can uninstall it…again, for free).

xobni’s off to a great start, all startups have bumps in the road, its hard to create as much awareness as quickly as xobni has, all windows software has bugs (we are talking about windows and outlook here right?…the two biggest POS software products on earth, both of which, btw, are not free), sheesh, calm down people.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:54 +0000

I am the above mentioned former interim VP marketing at Xobni and just wanted to post a quick response. I’ve run marketing at two startups from launch to NASDAQ IPO filing, spending 5 years at each. During that time my kids have seen a lot less of me than I would have liked. I know the commitment/sacrifices it takes to make a startup successful and I’m not prepared to do it again at this point in my life. I made that clear to the Xobni team before I started the role. I also know that the first six months are the most critical to marketing a startup. I helped Xobni through this period and continue to be engaged with Xobni on a daily basis as an advisor. I’ve never been more excited about the company’s prospects than I am right now. Xobni is solving a critical need and has an enormous base of passionate users. And the performance is consistently getting better. My blog, startup-marketing.com contains more details on the scope of my role at Xobni.

By: The Big Winner » Xobni CEO Jeff Bonforte on hiring and working with the best talent

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:39:28 +0000

[...] The CEO posted a great comment on TechCrunch that provides some great insight into managing top employees: http://www.tech...-why/#comment-2... [...]

By: Xobni update(4226) & 12 invites! | zero.gr

Xobni update(4226) & 12 invites! | zero.gr — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:18:44 +0000

[...] ένα νέο update με αρκετές βελτιώσεις και bug fixes! Τελευταία νέα θέλουν την αποχώρηση του VP Engineering της εταιρείας Gabor Cselle [...]

By: Anonymouscoward

Anonymouscoward — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:19:37 +0000

Xobni is banned at our company, too slow and buggy. It has been too slow and buggy since it was launched, and hasn’t gotten better in almost a year. Plus Gabor’s and Jeff’s egos are so big they can’t fit in the same room.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:54:48 +0000

I don’t know why CTO left, but most of my cube drones have uninstalled xobni because it’s crushing their computer performance when installed. I like the searching capabilities, but most people won’t tolerate the degradation of performance. Seems like a pretty easy path forward for xobni to really hit the big time…

By: Lionheart

Lionheart — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:53:13 +0000

I know how you feel Felipe… I thought the same thing.

By: StartupNewz.com

StartupNewz.com — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:52:11 +0000

Why is a Xobni Executive Leaving this Red-Hot Startup?…

The very first employee of the Paul Graham nurtured startup Xobni and the Vice President of Engineering, Gabor Cselle is leaving the startup to start his own venture. That is a bit of a shocker for this hot startup….

By: SickOfLolHead

SickOfLolHead — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:10:44 +0000

@LolHead – do you realize how irritating you are. Shut it.

By: Ramman Delvhi

Ramman Delvhi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:40:53 +0000

It seems that in your days, beeing an engineer was all about building the first car. Give us a break old man.

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:06:21 +0000

Another vaporware startup from ybombinators. Xobni is nothing special and runs really slowly. They should have taken the MSFT offer and ran. Cselle doesn’t see the company going anywhere so he’s leaving. That’s a terrible indication of Xobni’s future. MSFT is going to just implement everything Xobni does now and make it useless.

By: ceejayoz

ceejayoz — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:09:45 +0000

Uh, many small companies call the entire staff “the team”. Congrats on reading way too much into an innocuous statement.

By: Startup Meme » Blog Archive Xobni, an Inbox Manager lost its VP Engineering

Startup Meme » Blog Archive Xobni, an Inbox Manager lost its VP Engineering — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:08:40 +0000

[...] that provides different kinds of email analytics has recently experienced a Senior Exodus as it has lost its first employee Gabor Cselle. Cselle is working as a VP Engineering and had joined the company [...]

By: LolHead

LolHead — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:54:44 +0000

“And in the meantime, if you or someone you know is an incredible engineer and leader, please send them our way. My email is jeff.bonforte@xobni.com. We are hiring!”

Yeah Jeffy I’m sending them as we speak. what are you gonna do to them this time, sodomy or more “i was in the bust 2000″. shit man, get over it

By: LolHead

LolHead — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:50:25 +0000

can i get your digits?

By: LolHead

LolHead — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:49:32 +0000

Xobni – Looks pretty, works shitty(TM)

Jeff, from Yahoo to Xobni, you have a knack for choosing sinking ships, stay the mofo away from me

By: LolHead

LolHead — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:48:04 +0000

“Xobni takes up a lot of resources for its good UI”

Well… i don’t know about that… the UI is all talk no substance. Looks pretty, works shitty (no CC on this one either, make up your own)

Xobni – Looks pretty, works shitty(TM)

By: LolHead

LolHead — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:43:33 +0000

i deadpool you… lol

By: Roundup: Executives leave, hackers move in, robots invade » VentureBeat

Roundup: Executives leave, hackers move in, robots invade » VentureBeat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:17:44 +0000

[...] — Gabor Cselle, a vice president and the first official employee at email startup Xobni, has resigned, stating that he wants to start his own company. Given his past experience and expertise, the new [...]

By: Sujay

Sujay — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:13:25 +0000

Its very likely that MS can approach Xobni again with a better bid. MS Outlook still does not have a decent search engine. I use LookOut which has been bought by MS , only to spoil it. Lookout is an extremely useful search plugin for Outlook – the best I have used. Xobni takes up a lot of resources for its good UI . Any company MS buys has to surrender itself to Microsoft. One cannot download Lookout from the MS site anymore … one has to search for the tool. I even read somewhere that Lookout does not work with Outlook 2007. I think Google employees ( ex or present ) shall find this kind of information hard to digest.

By: =jason

=jason — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:04:15 +0000

@ Arrington. This is why Video Comments Don’t Work! The whole point of commenting is that it is somewhat anonymous. Unless you are an arrogant prick or are overly opinionated, you won’t leave a video comment. I guess you fit both these stereotypes, thus why you invested in such a worthless company. Get someone to manage your investments. Just because you can write about tech companies, still doesn’t mean you know shit about whats going to succeed. I deadpool you.

By: =jason

=jason — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:59:23 +0000

You are Trash

By: =jason

=jason — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:55 +0000

Hey Kincay! You’re A Joke! Don’t You Think He’ll Be able to leave and retain his founders equity? Maybe you should be re-thinking your decision as a writer before dogging successful entrepreneurs. Get lost.

@Arrington. Get some new writers.