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This thread is full of nasty comments about sama and his blog post. To those of you attacking him, remember that you're talking about a man who has already pro
by Jeong19 11y ago
This thread is full of nasty comments about sama and his blog post.
To those of you attacking him, remember that you're talking about a man who has already proven himself to be one of the most disruptive entrepreneurs SV has ever seen, despite still being relatively young. When Sam was a fresh Stanford dropout, he built Loopt, the very first location aware app, which spawned dozens of imitators, including Foursquare and Gowalla. It also doubled as a dating app popular amongst gay men and easily beat Grindr to market by a decade.
If sama says Jeremy's claim is baseless, then I'm inclined to believe him, on the strength of his reputation and accomplishments alone.
Edit: Could the downvoters at least explain themselves? Is defending YC or sama enough to deserve downvotes now?
- joslin01 11y agoYou're getting down-voted because your argument boils down to Sam is a smart guy, trust him. Engineers like to think for themselves and play detective. For consolation, I had the same reaction especially when I first read the blog-post. Having read through this entire counter-complaint and the comments here, I'm not so sure anymore.
- slowernet 11y agoDodgeball, the predecessor of Foursquare, predated Loopt in the mobile social space by at least three years. There were likely others. Loopt received the at that time unheard of privilege of running an always-on location service on some phones, and failed as a business. Separately, being inclined to believe someone in a matter of fact/law based on their track record in another realm is an example of the appeal to authority fallacy. The subject also has personal and institutional conflicts of interest in this instance. Now if we're talking polo shirt styling...
- rajacombinator 11y agoHe built something that failed, then made a very cushy landing at YC. Hardly "one of the most disruptive" ...
- fudged71 11y agoYou're being downvoted because Sama is incredibly biased on this case. He has a financial responsibility to his LPs to help the acquisition of Cruise by GM, yet this legal case is getting in the way. Of course he's going to badmouth the guy, regardless of which side is truly correct.