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There was no exaggeration at all. If anything, I left a lot out (the trip to CMGI's conference is worth an article all by itself). Plus I left out that RIMM inv
by jaltucher 16y ago
There was no exaggeration at all. If anything, I left a lot out (the trip to CMGI's conference is worth an article all by itself). Plus I left out that RIMM invested and several other well-known funds.
- corin_ 16y agonow worth over a hundred trillion dollars. Unless there were companies I was unaware of that were worth more than 200 times today's most valuable companies (for example the #1 publicly traded company, Exxon Mobil, which is worth ~$370b or 270 times less that your "hundred trillion dollars", then that was definitively exaggeration. Yes, that wasn't a key fact in the story, but it does mean you can't claim that "there was no exaggeration at all."
- jaltucher 16y agoWell, that was a joke. I would say "exaggeration" would be if I said, "we raised $50mm" when we only raised "30mm" in that first round.
- corin_ 16y agoThe fact that it was written for humour not to mislead doesn't change the fact that it was exaggeration, and for sure I don't think anyone reading it thought you were genuinely trying to mislead people into thinking that companies were actually worth that much. But... it still invalidates the idea of there being no exaggeration ;)
- jaltucher 16y agoI guess if it were a computer program instead of an article it could be considered exaggeration.