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This smacks of a manufactured PR piece.

• knodi123 7y ago
  How would you write this piece differently if you merely wanted to relay an interesting bit of tech news, and had no manufactured PR motives?
  • 205guy 7y ago
    Write more details about the tech, potential hurdles or challenges, and how they might be addressed. Don't mention or quote investors (literally people with vested interests). Now that I think of it, the idea of the wiki-tribune crowd-sourced news and social network is appealing, and has many similarities to HN.
• semiotagonal 7y ago
  > ...the serial entrepreneur and investor. I still don't understand the virtue of being a "serial entrepreneur", especially with no indication of what businesses were created. It just sounds like someone who bailed on several previous companies that aren't even worth mentioning.
  • adventured 7y ago
    > I still don't understand the virtue of being a "serial entrepreneur", especially with no indication of what businesses were created. They certainly should have elaborated a bit. It's Bill Gross from Idealab. He has a long entrepreneurial history and quite mixed record of meaningful successes and spectacular failures. "Prior to Idealab, Gross founded GNP Loudspeakers (now GNP Audio Video), an audio equipment manufacturer; GNP Development Inc., acquired by Lotus Software; and Knowledge Adventure, an educational software company, later acquired by Cendant." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_T._Gross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_T._Gross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealab