Chris Sacca's 'What is left?'

Openness Wins

A quick check of the FCC Auction 73 site this morning reveals that the bidding in Round 17 pushed the provisional winning bid for the nationwide C block of 700MHz spectrum over the $4.6 billion reserve price. As a result, openness principles will now apply to all use of that spectrum.

While the auction is by no means over, and I am as curious as anyone to see who ultimately emerges as the highest bidder, congratulations to everyone who worked tirelessly, took great risks, and spoke up for what they believed to make this crazy idea a reality.

Twenty Years of Eric, Larry, and Sergey

I am frequently asked how long I think Eric, Larry, or Sergey will stick around at Google. Folks query, "Those guys have made unfathomable amounts of money and must have other things they would like to do with their time, no?"

I have never known how to respond to such a question. In my time there, I didn't ever get the sense any of the three of them wished they were doing anything other than their jobs at Google. Yet, there would seem to be some implicit limit as to how long a tenure you could expect from mere mortals, right?

Thanks to Adam Lashinsky's recent interview with Eric, Larry, and Sergey in Fortune, we no longer have to hazard a guess at their plans for staying on at the company:

Lashinsky: Will you all work at Google for the rest of your careers?

Schmidt: We agreed to work together for how long, gentlemen?

Brin: Twenty years.

Lashinsky: Really? When did you make that agreement?

Schmidt: Two years, seven months, and four days ago. But who's counting? Actually, we agreed the month before we went public that we would work together for 20 years. I will be 69, and according to Google I'm going to live to 84, so I should be fine.

Web Geek Needed For a Start-Up in NYC

I am backing an edgy little content company in New York City that needs their first full-time tech lead. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground level of a rapidly growing web property, which already has tons of sweet press, sick and steadily growing traffic, and some very passionate users.

Required characteristics:
- Expert knowledge of PHP 5, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Ninja skills with relational database design and deployment for dynamic DB driven sites using MySQL 5
- Deep comprehension of HTML design capabilities and constraints of various platforms and browsers
- Minimum of 3 years of strong Object Oriented design and programming experience
- Familiarity with MVC/tiered architectures
- Fancy front-end chops (AJAX)
- Experience with Apache, SVN, SSH, etc.
- SEO know-how
- Understanding of ad-serving and optimization
- Start-up hunger and ambition
- Strong preference that you are located in NYC. Remote superstars will be considered nonetheless.

Keeping the lid on the property name for now until the site that YOU build gets relaunched, but it isn't porn, gambling, nor an outpost for fascist propaganda. That said, this site is extremely cool, currently being courted for acquisition, AND chicks dig it.  I am quite willing to bet that working with these guys will get you laid.

Come one, come all with the resumes/URLs.