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Joost sounds like one of those companies that's created just to get VC money and get sold to someone gullible. If the founders had truly wanted to build someth
by akamaka 17y ago
Joost sounds like one of those companies that's created just to get VC money and get sold to someone gullible.
If the founders had truly wanted to build something that helped their customers, they could have done it without $45 million in funding, as they had when they created Kazaa and Skype.
- jexe 17y agoI don't think they had sinister or non-genuine intentions; I think they were deluded by their previous successes that this would be a clear win, and went fast into it without considering the obvious (to us now, at least). They were mistakenly trained to think that P2P was their technical-advantage hammer that they could hit every nail with.