Why the interest in Shutterfly?
JH: I was my high school and college yearbook photographer, and my wife and I spent $1900 on Shutterfly the year before I joined. I was a big customer and had been using it for five years. The headhunter I had been using to find the CEO of a board I was sitting on called me and asked me for some names for the Shutterfly job. He called back a few weeks later and said the names were great but wondered if I was interested. I told him no thanks, because I was happy at eBay. He convinced me to go have breakfast with Jim Clark. Jim had founded Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and WebMD. We had breakfast, and it turned into lunch which then turned into dinner with other board members. An offer followed a couple of days later, and after a couple of weeks of diligence, and I accepted on Christmas Eve and I started in January 2005.
