Kunal Shah was the first technical hire at Connected Ventures, joining as Lead Developer, and ultimately rose to be VP of R&D managing 10 co-workers before he left a couple of years ago to found RentJuice in San Francisco with David Vivero. Their service makes it easy to list and rent apartments.

My favorite memory of Kunal occurred soon after he joined. Revved up by having another teammate, we set an aggressive deadline to rewrite, redesign and relaunch CollegeHumor in about 6 weeks. Halfway through, Kunal and I found ourselves staying later and later at the office, now knowing full well that the self-imposed deadline was too aggressive. Only half-kidding, he proposed a rule that for every day we exceeded the deadline, we should stay one hour later than the night before. I accepted and a week later we were at the point where we had to bring sleeping bags to our grungy little office, which inaugurated a tradition now known as “Killweek” which involves bunkering down and camping out in the office for a week of bonding over work. On this occasion, on the final night, we worked through until 7am. The sun was up, it was Saturday morning, and we drifted outside for something to eat. The streets were eerily empty and without agreeing to it we wandered to the Brooklyn Bridge. We kept walking until we were halfway over it, and I remember the orange glow of the morning and feeling so proud of what we had accomplished, and most importantly I know both of us were thinking, “What a amazing city.”

Our friendship grew out of that week and I consider it one of my favorite experiences associated with moving to NYC and starting a company.

Since then, he has proven to be brilliant, rational, obsessively committed to his responsibilities, down to earth, and big hearted. He was so popular at Connected Ventures that the company planned a roast in his honor, the first and only for a departing employee. 

You’d be fortunate to work with him and here’s your chance: RentJuice seeks a Web Developer and a Designer, both to based in San Francisco.

If you’d like me to pass along your interest, please send me a letter to share with Kunal.

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