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I have a family member who knows the founders and apparently they're completely nontechnical "idea guys" who have a trail of shitty projects like this and have
by cptskippy 11y ago
I have a family member who knows the founders and apparently they're completely nontechnical "idea guys" who have a trail of shitty projects like this and have already moved on to other projects. So it's not that surprising to me.
- hoopism 11y agoThis isn't an "everyday joe" who loved camping and hit upon a neat cooler design... He had been working to perfect his pitch on all sorts of novelty items. Washington Post had an article on prior failures (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/28/ryan-grepper-inventor-of-the-coolest-cooler-failed-many-times-before-raising-11-million-on-kickstarter/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08...). Professional crowd funder looks like his only skill.
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- dwaltrip 11y agoThe WashingtonPost article linked by another reply mentioned he was a sign welder at one time, and talked about him working in his workshop. Do you think the article overstates these things? It seems like he has at least some hard skills.
- cptskippy 11y agoIt said in his part time he welded, it never said he did it as a career. In my spare time I engineer electronic devices, fabricate parts, enclosures, mounts and simple machinery, manage data networks, and perform landscape and automotive maintenance. And you'd be an idiot if you hired me to do any of those things professionally.