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One day my friends and I were walking in downtown Seattle. Looking up we saw a huge billboard that simply said, "MyLackey.com". What an asinine, tone-deaf, elit
by eevilspock 8y ago
One day my friends and I were walking in downtown Seattle. Looking up we saw a huge billboard that simply said, "MyLackey.com". What an asinine, tone-deaf, elitist, heartless yet honest name we thought[1].
Later we learned one of the founders was Brian McGarvey, someone we had worked with in a prior startup. His idea was to take Kozmo.com[2] up a notch. It exemplified the dot-com boom, and now Facebook, Uber, and much of Silicon Valley then and today: get rich quick, fuck humanity.
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[1] Much the same way Trump's election is America being honest with itself.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com