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Consensus amongst my hacker community: sellout. But we all drunk some haterade this morning.
by jw84 16y ago
Consensus amongst my hacker community: sellout. But we all drunk some haterade this morning.
- pedalpete 16y agoIs that a consensus of one? From a business perspective, this is a successful exit, though I seem to recall $100m valuation about a year ago. From a hacker perspective, I don't really think much about TC. They aren't a technology company, though they've done a really nice job with open data on the crunchbase.
- jw84 16y agoCute. The consensus is of six successful and pretty popular serial entrepreneurs/hackers and five of my high up tech hacks contacts that's been reading TechCrunch even before '05, when Arrington published on his first site. The hackers thought he was a startup hero but this is a sellout move to give it up like this. The hacks think the flacks must be effing elated. Now the process to get their bullshit published is streamlined when there's shareholders to account for.
- jrockway 16y agoWhat's great about selling out is that he doesn't have to care that you think he's selling out. He has a hundred million dollars now...
- jw84 16y agoYou don't need money to not care. That's a childish notion.
- pedalpete 16y agoI don't think you deserve -points for this response, but I clearly it seems your sample isn't representative of the overall community. Though I've become curious, what would your group have considered a positive result for MA and TC? Is there an exit strategy that your group would have preferred? Why? Or do you feel that any exit would have been selling out? Is there some inherent value you see to TC being independent?