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Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
- mattjaynes 19y agoBREAKING NEWS: Older person attempts to seem younger! UP NEXT: Blogdogs.com not actually written by dogs! Rumored human involvement!
- mechanical_fish 19y agoNow we know why so many successful startups seem to be founded by people under thirty.
- ajkates 19y agoAgain, it's a trust thing. Communities are based entirely upon trust, and no one wants to trust an old geezer. Plus, it probably helped him pick up the ladies.
- jadams 19y agoYeah, it's better to trust a liar than a "geezer". What is this, the freaking Cultural Revolution? P.S. That was something that happened before 1985.
- DanielBMarkham 19y agoNever trust anybody over 30, man :)
- mynameishere 19y agoThis calls for an EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING: http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html
- mattjaynes 19y agolol, great find ;) "Are you telling me the nightly nacho cheese masks aren't working?"
- gojomo 19y agoMyspace is from LA. If I moved to LA, I'd probably subtract 5 years from my age, too. It's local custom.
- patrickg-zill 19y agoJust like Omidyar and eBay, where they floated the story about him just wanting to sell his girlfriend's Pez collection or whatever it was that the PR firm dreamed up.
- vlad 19y agoOr YouTube and the dinner party story. Plus it had three co-founders, not two.
- honewatson 19y agoI'd lie about my age to for $510 million dollars.
- nextmoveone 19y agocould have sworn it was $580?
- asdflkj 19y agoIf the audience is shallow enough to like a site more based on the founder's age, it's only fitting that he should lie about it. Caesar's to Caesar.
- zaidf 19y agoNext: Tom is not the founder of MySpace. People should read up the history of MySpace.
- aswanson 19y agoF+%$ it. It worked.