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pg wrote about the art of carefully disguised PR campaigns: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
by dictum 13y ago
pg wrote about the art of carefully disguised PR campaigns: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- gdubs 13y agoHe also mentioned that they were never able to crack the New York Times :) That was, however, some time ago.
- jeorgun 13y agoAlso, that Viaweb never made it to the New York Times doesn't mean that nobody then did. Note the first sentence of the essay ;)
- gdubs 13y agoHa, great point! I had based my comment on memory. Also, worth mentioning that while I don't want to be overly cynical, this article does sound like a brilliant PR campaign. Given the size of typical PR budgets, you could afford a lot of free fast-food lunches for people.
- joshu 13y agoThat article was originally about me and was wrong. So there's that.