[Editor’s Note: This afternoon at about lunch time, I got pinged on the new hire of Harper Reed, former CTO at Threadless, as something called a Nepholologist at the Rackspace cloud division. In fact, I was pinged about six times from several different people, which was why it was pretty serendipitous that our own Kristen Nicole got a chance to sit down with him yesterday just to chat about where he’s been and where he’s going.

Incidentally, I asked our friends at Rackspace what a Nepholologist was, and they said he’d be, amongst other things, working on cool technology for customers, evangelizing the Rackspace Cloud, and serving as an all around technical expert.

Proper Disclosure: Rackspace is a sponsor of SiliconANGLE, as well as an individual sponsor of Robert Scoble’s Building43, a contributor to this blog. –mrh]

Chief Technology Officer of Threadless, Harper Reed, has decided to resign from the popular startup. As one of the company’s earliest employees, Reed had a hand in shaping Threadless into what it has become today.  Notable for its revolutionary c