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He's an investor to tune of $250,000 of their $18,000,000 valuation, so about 1.5%. Not buy a board seat level by any means, but not his usual random dude on th

by Macha 4y ago

He's an investor to tune of $250,000 of their $18,000,000 valuation, so about 1.5%. Not buy a board seat level by any means, but not his usual random dude on the internet relationship with manufacturers either. Now AMD on the other hand, he likely did overestimate the influence AMD marketing (and hence indirectly Linus) had over AMD's business deals planning, but the lack of follow-up is also from the framework side

OJFord 4y ago
And AMD has a $134 B valuation. I do not see why they care about some Youtuber asking them to sell chips to a company he gave some pocket change to. There isn't even a business relationship there for them to think it's a serious sales enquiry. And if Framework also showed 'lack of follow-up' (whatever that means? They didn't want to talk to him about buying AMD either?) then it probably wasn't?
- Macha 4y ago
  I don't know what AMD's valuation has to do with how seriously Framework will take an enquiry from one of their top ten investors. If you hadn't jumped into internet point scoring mode you would have seen that nowhere did I imply AMD was obliged to care. Linus certainly has a lot of influence with the AMD consumer marketing folks given that he is arguably the largest media source in that division's target market. He incorrectly assumed that that meant anything else to AMD. You can see how someone thinks "Oh AMD always replies to my emails really quick, they must care what I think", and not familiar with interior workings of corporate politics wrongly extrapolate that out to the entire company, rather than the one division who's job is to care about people like him - he was a PM at a regional retailer, then he was a youtuber, so I think as obvious as this would be to anyone who's worked in a large corporation, it is not his background. Lack of follow up by framework is from Linus's own description. By the sounds of it his contact at framework was like "yeah we'll think about that, but we're busy right now" and put it on a backlog somewhere.
  - OJFord 4y ago
    'Internet point scoring mode'? I don't mind telling you that all my comments (at time of writing) in this thread sit at 1, I don't care, and that the next most recent thread I commented in was a lambasted attempt to correct the use of 'efficiency' in describing heat pumps. I am not doing well if what I care about is internet point scoring, I assure you. > I don't know what AMD's valuation has to do with how seriously Framework will take an enquiry from one of their top ten investors. Just as I don't know what Framework's valuation has to do with why one of the contributors to it is justified in taking it upon himself to try to order the company a different CPU. > He incorrectly assumed that that meant anything else to AMD. I think we agree there. > Lack of follow up by framework is from Linus's own description. By the sounds of it his contact at framework was like "yeah we'll think about that, but we're busy right now" and put it on a backlog somewhere. Right, they did not ask for his help, it doesn't really make any sense that he took it upon himself to try. What was AMD supposed to say, 'sure we will sell if Framework wants to order'? And then what, Framework is just as uninterested/not prioritising it as yesterday?

by Macha 4y ago

OJFord 4y ago

And AMD has a $134 B valuation. I do not see why they care about some Youtuber asking them to sell chips to a company he gave some pocket change to. There isn't even a business relationship there for them to think it's a serious sales enquiry. And if Framework also showed 'lack of follow-up' (whatever that means? They didn't want to talk to him about buying AMD either?) then it probably wasn't?

Macha 4y ago
I don't know what AMD's valuation has to do with how seriously Framework will take an enquiry from one of their top ten investors. If you hadn't jumped into internet point scoring mode you would have seen that nowhere did I imply AMD was obliged to care. Linus certainly has a lot of influence with the AMD consumer marketing folks given that he is arguably the largest media source in that division's target market. He incorrectly assumed that that meant anything else to AMD. You can see how someone thinks "Oh AMD always replies to my emails really quick, they must care what I think", and not familiar with interior workings of corporate politics wrongly extrapolate that out to the entire company, rather than the one division who's job is to care about people like him - he was a PM at a regional retailer, then he was a youtuber, so I think as obvious as this would be to anyone who's worked in a large corporation, it is not his background. Lack of follow up by framework is from Linus's own description. By the sounds of it his contact at framework was like "yeah we'll think about that, but we're busy right now" and put it on a backlog somewhere.
- OJFord 4y ago
  'Internet point scoring mode'? I don't mind telling you that all my comments (at time of writing) in this thread sit at 1, I don't care, and that the next most recent thread I commented in was a lambasted attempt to correct the use of 'efficiency' in describing heat pumps. I am not doing well if what I care about is internet point scoring, I assure you. > I don't know what AMD's valuation has to do with how seriously Framework will take an enquiry from one of their top ten investors. Just as I don't know what Framework's valuation has to do with why one of the contributors to it is justified in taking it upon himself to try to order the company a different CPU. > He incorrectly assumed that that meant anything else to AMD. I think we agree there. > Lack of follow up by framework is from Linus's own description. By the sounds of it his contact at framework was like "yeah we'll think about that, but we're busy right now" and put it on a backlog somewhere. Right, they did not ask for his help, it doesn't really make any sense that he took it upon himself to try. What was AMD supposed to say, 'sure we will sell if Framework wants to order'? And then what, Framework is just as uninterested/not prioritising it as yesterday?