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Valleywag: Bow down and Worship Xobni's Party Throwing Skills
There's no such thing as bad press.
- staunch 19y agoCan't miss these two, they're damn funny: Part 1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N00/1162778055/in/set-72157601527180876/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N00/1162778055/in/set-... Part 2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N00/1163633584/in/set-72157601527180876/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N00/1163633584/in/set-... I've been a Xobni-skeptic since I saw the ads for product managers/QA people, office, etc. They appear to be doing a lot of obviously wrong stuff. I know they're smart and I do wish them luck, but it looks to me as if they're mostly interested in enjoying the funded startup ride.
- gaborcselle 19y agoEveryone needs a party sometimes! Valleywag maybe went a bit overboard in dissing our excesses. :-)
- staunch 19y agoI saw this picture and I had to do it. Hopefully you have a good sense of humor :-) http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4862/xobanyqj1.jpg http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4862/xobanyqj1.jpg
- brezina 19y agoI found our office on craiglist. It is dirt cheap for SF. Oh, and we negotiated the contract so that we haven't paid a dime for the first 3 months. When you are making another sticky notes web app QA might not matter, but when you are making fundamental business tools, I think it is one of the most important roles in a company.
- mattmaroon 19y agoSmash
- menloparkbum 19y agoyC funding does seem to come with magical PR pixie dust. There were a lot of startup parties the past two weekends. One I went to had an amazing DJ, amazing workspace, crazy antics, free booze, and hot babes. None of them were covered by any blog press. In contrast, valleywag writes about the one that looks like the math club had a mixer with the physics department in the grad school dorms, complete with fluorescent lighting...
- staunch 19y agoYeah it didn't look very extravagant at all. It just seem strange to me given the context. T-shirts that say "I'm excited to be here"?. It reinforced my previous image of some guys enjoying "the startup life" more than anything else. Maybe I'm not supposed to make comments like this though. I really do wish them well, I'm just skeptical.
- menloparkbum 19y agoAnyone who was around for the dot-com boom knows that the better the parties, the less likely the startup will succeed. The xobni party looked so lame that the company is almost guaranteed to be very successful.
- aswanson 19y agoIn the lower left, did you see the blue X? They have their own mousepads!
- blored 19y agoXOBNI IS AMAZING AT GENERATING PRESS. They have an article written about them in valleywag pre-launch. Way to go Matt, Adam and co. You guys are truly a cut above.
- pg 19y agoThat was a good party. One of the things they discovered was that anywhere.fm is the perfect stereo for a party, if you put it up on a big monitor.
- gaborcselle 19y agoThanks Paul! Sorry for making you endure Windows.
- augy 19y agoIf that was their "we just got an office" party, imagine what it will be like if they go ipo. Fingers crossed.
- blored 19y agoUp-voted for hilarity.
- mattmaroon 19y agoJessica promised to do keg stands if any of her flock IPOed. I'm hoping we'll be the ones to do it, but if another Y C startup beats us there we're definitely still holding her to her word (and a keg).
- augy 19y agoI hope you do too. Can I RSVP right now?
- dawie 19y agoGood to see that you invited some girls