Congratulations to Andrew Braccia, a friend from our days at Yahoo! who currently heads up their core search business efforts. He is heading off to a career in venture capital and joining Accel, where he will be spending a lot of time looking at consumer Internet startups (so don't bother pitching him on your hot idea for next-gen fabless semiconductors ...).
Is it the beginning of a trend (or the end?), with many consumer Internet and media operating-side folks heading to VC? Chamath Palihapitiya from AOL to Mayfield, Raj Kapoor from Snapfish to Mayfield, James Slavet from Yahoo! to Greylock, among others -- who's next?
