Tan and eight other Singaporean engineers uprooted and came here cold. In November, Tan pitched Jurvetson. Third Voice would make software that allows users to post comments, viewable only by other users, directly onto the front page of any Web site. It's the Web equivalent of empowering people to spray-paint the State Capital. Today, Tan has come by to discuss some new hires, of which there will be many in the next month.
Internet companies are like Bazooka bubble gum.
Then, with the slightest additional effort, a mere exhale, it expands 100X. For a while it's customary to double in size every month. That's what Tan is about to go through. He's ready to exhale. We meet with one candidate for vice president for business development, Leo Jolicoeur, who brings experience from a couple of the more prominent corporations in the valley. He has five other job offers already on the table.