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I actually stopped reading Gizmodo because i thought the article where they made him cry a few years back was too far. Shaming a 15 year old kid publicly no mat
by securingsincity 14y ago
I actually stopped reading Gizmodo because i thought the article where they made him cry a few years back was too far. Shaming a 15 year old kid publicly no matter how annoying seemed too far. Now he successfully gets summly acquired and the support for and shade that has been thrown at this kid has been so massive. I still don't know what to think of the kid, but I do think that SRI's tech definitely meets the needs of Yahoo and would fit perfectly with their media content.
- UK-AL 14y agoI don't like how they treated him. However I think it does expose the difference between media reporting(tech genius,visionary, future leader, hard working) and actual reality(Narcissistic, child like, unprofessional). And those traits have been exposed again, since he claimed to invent the tech and developed the app in the media. Media have hailed shower of praises, mainly because he uses a top PR agency. Its kind of depressing for me, because it seems to mean being showy, and having a good PR facade is worth far more than people doing the actual work.
- badgar 14y ago> Its kind of depressing for me, because it seems to mean being showy, and having a good PR facade is worth far more than people doing the actual work. Marketing is a huge part of the startup world. There's a reason people are told to stop building at MVP - what you build isn't really important, and you're really likely to throw away what you built and switch to something else.
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