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This entire thing seemed absurd. What actual value does Maciej provide beyond a trivial amount of cash given in a facetious manner? The Co-Prosperity Cloud may
by ruswick 14y ago
This entire thing seemed absurd. What actual value does Maciej provide beyond a trivial amount of cash given in a facetious manner?
The Co-Prosperity Cloud may have been a parody of the the current incubator trend, but the companies joining appear to be real entities with genuine goals? What do they have to gain by taking part in some tongue-in-cheek publicity stunt?
There are better ways to pursue both $37 and the small amount of notoriety that this may bring.
- geofft 14y agoThe value is that it's Hacker News linkbait. I certainly learned about six ideas that I wouldn't have otherwise, and I would _never_ have clicked on "Show HN: mysillyidea.com".
- LVB 14y agoThe better question is: what do they have to lose? The winners get advice, contacts and promotion. They give up nothing as far as I can tell.
- msbarnett 14y ago> What do they have to gain by taking part in some tongue-in-cheek publicity stunt? Nobody had heard of these companies yesterday. Now, their names are being seen by a lot of people in the many stories on influential sites linking to maciej's announcement. The co-prosperity sphere got a rather lauditory write-up in The Economist! That's advertising you can't buy.
- tptacek 14y agoIt is all part of a scam whereby these "companies" pick up seed money from Maciej and then immediately flip to the likes of Groupon and Pinterest, whose investors promptly kick back funds to Maciej, who makes a point of firing all his employees exactly 37 minutes before their vesting cliff. I've talked to him about it. He's a _dick_. late edit: now he's trying to get me hellbanned. I saw him give a talk once to new startup founders about this. Anything to get an edge early on, including hellbanning innocent people like me.
- cdcarter 14y agoCan I ask why you decided to offer an extra $50 to the winners if this is how you feel about Maciej?