Christian Lindholm
I know everyone has already seen the news from Russ about Christian joining Yahoo, but there’s also a post from Christian on his own blog explaining motivation and his hopes at Yahoo. Hearing that Christian Lindholm was talking to Yahoo actually gave me pause when I was looking for my new job. Christian is a fantastic person with a great mix of vision and practical execution knowledge. I didn’t consider Yahoo a real contender until I heard about Christian being there. If Yahoo lets him and Russ carry through on what they want to do I think Yahoo really will be able to transform the landscape of both mobility and the Internet. This could be really huge. Christian isn’t moving out to the US right away cause he’s having visa problems (both Diego Doval and Christian held out of the US because of visa problems, I have to wonder how these rules are really a benefit). I’m personally really looking forward to the time when he’s out here, helping to spread the mobile religion in the valley :-)
January 31st, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I really feel Christian Lindholm is out of his element here. This man, while working for Nokia, had few ideas himself. Being called the Father of the Series 60 is, without a doubt, overblown. He knows who and where the whole concept comes from. Just ask him about Mother program. And he knows damn well who was the first to develop this interface.
This man is a political animal. He takes the work of other individuals. There is a long list of people he has done wrong.
Surely Yahoo should know what lies this man bases his resume on. And surely Yahoo is a company that will see this man is way out of his league.
If you want a list of the real people who has done the work, it would be easy to show. Also Christian can see the user specifications of the ” Mother Program” which could be in my possession. Ask him to explain all of this. Father of the Series 60?? No way