Adam Wiggins, the founder and CTO of cloud platform, Heroku, has made it known that he has left the company on Friday, May 31st after running it for six consecutive years. Wiggins made this announcement through GitHub Gist by saying that “Today is my last day at Heroku.” However, he did not reveal the reason behind taking this step and has not shed any light on his future plans. It has been reported that Wiggins will take some time off and he is “definitely not done building things.” Nevertheless, it was not an easy decision for Wiggins to make, as his goodbye note suggests that he had made the move with “a heavy heart.”
According to the former CTO, running Heroku was an “opportunity of a lifetime” for him. But Wiggins had already sold Heroku to Salesforce.com in 2010 for a cash amount of $250 million. The interesting thing about this deal was that it was announced a day after the site released its platform API, which enabled the platform to integrate with various services.
Below is the full statement from Wiggins in which he has shared his experience as the founder and CTO of Heroku:
“It’s with a heavy heart that I announce that Friday, May 31 2013 will be my last day at Heroku.
How can I possibly put into words what Heroku has meant to me these last six years? I can say it was a tremendous experience; or the opportunity of a lifetime; or the greatest thing I have ever been a part of. I can say that Heroku has been my life’s work, as I did recently in a public blog post. All of those things are true, but none seem to capture the enormity of what’s transpired these past six years.
I tend to focus on mechanical elements of a company: product, code, design, process. But what has surprised me the most at Heroku is that none of these things is the best part. The best part is the team.
I’ve never had the chance to work with a more singular group of people. Talented, passionate, skilled, dedicated. Most of all, sharing a set of values: elegance, craft, maniacal focus on simplicity; and an uncompromising belief that the future will be made of software, and how that software gets made will shape the future of the world.
The Heroku team is going to continue to achieve great things. I will continue to be a champion for Heroku and all it stands for in my new life as a Heroku alumni.”
Source: TNW, GitHubGist
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