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Would that it had been a public benefit corporation or nonprofit; maybe I would still be contributing today.
by iterance 2y ago
Would that it had been a public benefit corporation or nonprofit; maybe I would still be contributing today.
- epistasis 2y agoThis uber-cynical and uncharitable smearing of the story is unhelpful at best. May I never be subject to this sort of misreading, and I hope you never are either.
- iterance 2y agomeh. you're probably right. I edited and distilled it down to the main point. I just wish it were a nonprofit at the end of the day, I guess. It would've been the right thing to do. That he chose not to makes me sad. That he was rewarded richly for it, sadder.
- arp242 2y ago> That he chose not to makes me sad I'm not sure if it was really up to him; I doubt he owned a majority of the company?
- SeanAnderson 2y agoSure was better than ExpertsExchange, though :)
- iterance 2y agoTrue enough. I guess it's probably not beyond saving, either. It does have a pretty good core idea.
- bigmattystyles 2y agoOh, it wasn't ExpertSexChange?
- anoncow 2y agoMaking Stackoverflow the Wikipedia of QnA was a missed opportunity in hindsight.