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0 pointsrandallsquared18y ago0 comments

Not much, necessarily. What if the guy(s) behind myspace had asked for feedback in a hacker forum in 2002? It's not clear to me that many would have recognized it as a huge moneymaker.

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NSX218y ago· 3 in thread

Exactly ... I know I'm going to lose all 9 of my karma points for this, but: Michael Dell is successful in business and throughout 98, 99, and 2000 maintained that Steve Jobs should just "give up" and "stop deluding shareholders". Good thing Steve Jobs is in the habit of listening to unsolicited advice. So now that the whole world knows that even the opinions of rich, successful people can be totally off and worthless, what makes you naysayers think anybody cares what you think about their startup prospects? For all you know this guy's invented an algorithm to download terabits of video in seconds and is using this "social alarm" thing as a ruse ...

randallsquaredOP18y ago

As an aside, I'd feel better about modding you up if you didn't protest that you expect to be modded down. :)

mattmaroon18y ago

That logic is bad because Jobs and Dell were sorta competitors. This guy has well-meaning noncompetitors telling him to switch directions, which is a much different thing.

NSX218y ago

Not really; in both cases you have people who don't know what they're talking about giving unsolicited advice the value of which nobody knows a priori ...

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