Paul Buchheit, Gmail Inventor, Leaves Facebook For Y Combinator

ReadWriteWeb, SocialBeat and others are reporting the departure of Gmail creator from Facebook to Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley startup incubator.

Update 11/15/2010: The LA Times speaks with Paul about his move, Google and Facebook; Y Combinator’s Paul Graham speaks with Scoble about why they snagged him; and Mashable weighs in on the story as well.