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Is anyone really surprised?

• rokhayakebe 17y ago
  What about the people who invested 12 million dollars in the company. How many YC round is that?
  • yan 17y ago
    I think those people were investing in mostly La Meur's name and not his company. Keep in mind, we didn't see his sales pitches, which might have been very convincing.
    • mattmaroon 17y ago
      I tend to think that no matter how much people like Loic, when $12m gets raised and the product falls flat, somebody somewhere feels like they have a little egg on their face.
• slpsys 17y ago
  “I think it’s not a technology problem,” he said. “I think it’s a human problem, that there are very few people like you and me.” While I can certainly sympathize with someone whose dream goes unfulfilled, blaming the Internet at large for not 'getting it' rather than acknowledging you were solving a problem no one apparently had is pretty haughty.
  • gruseom 17y ago
    I didn't notice any blaming. I thought he was just saying that the market wasn't as big as he'd hoped. Many successful startups originate in founders trying to solve a problem they themselves had. This may be a case where they did that, but it turned out there weren't enough other people like them.