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Didn't Tribes.net get acquired from Cisco for like a lot of money?

• staunch 15y ago
  Cisco bought some remnant "technology" for a pittance. It failed about as completely as possible.
  • jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
    It was a failure, but I remember having dinner with Mark around that time and it made him more and more motivated to have a win. He took the fire from that failure and the knowledge of social networks and went all in on social games. i was actually with him the night he was thinking of hooking up with the poker guys and i was like "who is going to play poker for fake chips... that's so dumb!" ... on top of that I didn't invest in Zynga and he invested in Mahalo! :-)
    • Hisoka 15y ago
      "In 1995, Pincus launched his first startup, Freeloader, Inc., a web-based push technology service that was acquired seven months later by Individual, Inc. for $38 million" - Wikipedia. If that wasn't a win, I don't know what is...