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I don't know why you feel the need to hate on his success because he doesn't have any employees. It's as if whatever he built counts for nothing. Whatever you d
by sskates 14y ago
I don't know why you feel the need to hate on his success because he doesn't have any employees. It's as if whatever he built counts for nothing. Whatever you did while you were a sophomore in college it probably wasn't anything close to what Dan has achieved. From his blog: "a little app I built in a few days to review websites that's grossed a few thousand dollars to date" and "I programmed and sold apps for BlackBerry and iPhone including the first BlackBerry anti-theft program called FindIt". So yeah, he's made money.
I know I was still finding my way in college at that point, cruising by in my classes without much to show for it.
- tatsuke95 14y agoI'm not knocking the guy's talents. I'm knocking what is considered "a few companies".
- mkramlich 14y agoI have nothing ill to think of Mr. Shipman either, he's probably both a nice guy and a smart guy. But I do agree with you that there's a recent trend going on over the last year or so with people (especially younger people, and especially web programmers) who create a few different small websites and then present themselves as having started/built/run/sold businesses. Lots of CEOs of, well, simple Rails apps. "I'm the CEO of a WordPress blog!" There are things we can say which can be strictly true, but which waters down and muddles the meaning and importance of what the words originally meant. Which makes it hard to separate signal from noise. Which is bad.