Interview: Threadless CTO Harper Reed Heads to Rackspace

It's weird that Jeffrey Kalmikoff (cofounder) left for Digg earlier this month and now the CTO's leaving, too.<p>Especially at a company that's had years of seemingly happy, noneventful growth.<p>Guess it could be just a coincidence, but I wonder if it's not something else (purchase, etc).

How great would it be to be able to say this:<p>"the goals i had set for myself were all accomplished. I was done. We had accomplished a lot and since threadless image was in a great place – i was able to exit without feeling like there was more to do."

Congratulations to Harper. Met him briefly at bar camp here in Chicago last year.<p>I'll never forget when some unfortunate fellow let slip that he did SEO for a living and Harper just ripped into him for "gaming the web". It was a sight to behold.

Rackspace is on a roll.

Kristen Nicole sat down with Threadless CTO Harper Reed yesterday, just ahead of his announcement of his move to Rackspace. Harper is a <i>prolific</i> serial entrepreneur. Good read.