Today I resigned from B&N NOOK Apps to embark on a new journey in my career. Before I talk about the next destination, I wanted to talk openly about my time at NOOK Apps and say thanks to those who made it great.

NOOK Apps was an amazing journey and will always be a highlight of my career. The opportunity to build a marketplace for applications atop a new class of content centric device was big, complex, and a ton of fun. I joined a small team and we built out all the required elements to succeed from scratch in 5 months.  We launched NOOK Apps with 136 apps within an operating system update to NOOK Color. We went from 0 to millions of app installs per month and worked non-stop to make the platform better for all developers building applications. Over the past year we have helped thousands of app developers monetize great content on a new platform in a new market.

The best part of working on NOOK Apps was the team. I have worked with great teams before but never quite as good as the team on NOOK Apps. Every role was filled with a person with vast experience in the mobile space and together we made NOOK Apps a success.

Claudia, Simon, Tavares, Steven, Josh, Gideon, Cary, Titus, Eric, Ron…

Thanks, You made my time at NOOK great and we accomplished allot working together as a team.

As for next steps for me…  I will save that for tomorrow.

GO NOOK GO!

Thanks for all the fish!

Ted