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He's converting it because he doesn't think starving children in Africa have much use for a Starbucks gift card.
by n09n 15y ago
He's converting it because he doesn't think starving children in Africa have much use for a Starbucks gift card.
- randallsquared 15y agoMy point is that if he intends to give the money to starving children in Africa (or, really, to people who say that some percentage will end up being given to starving children...), the fact that money is money means that there's no reason not to do that at once. I'm not one of those willing to call what Odio did theft; it's merely rude and underhanded. But I do wonder if people who do business with him in the future will not pause to remember that he's proud of being someone who will exploit the exact letter of the rules to his own advantage (probably mere self-satisfaction in this case, but one does wonder why he didn't do the donation first...), even when the spirit of the thing was otherwise. It seems possible that he has given up considerable future income in return for the personal satisfaction he derived from stepping on someone else's fun.
- lurker19 15y agoFrom a business persepctive, Sam Odio's action was fantastic. He made one of the best answers ever seen for the YC application question "when have you hacked a system?" He walked up to a pile of money just sitting their being used for a suboptimal purpose, and he took it and put it to good use.
- jaredmck 15y agoI know I'll never buy anything from a business run by Sam Odio, unless he somehow were to redact all this douchery. I suspect I'm not the only one who feels this way. There are too many decent people out there to waste time and money with someone like this.