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Re: The man with the golden cookie

hollerith — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:31:59 -0000

This resembles my sexual relationships with women.

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

zellunit — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:25:21 -0000

Excellent point, yeah scarily, I think most could coast. I mean, some people do that in a way right? It's all a matter of degree of personal attention, which is in itself just a continuous scale. That hits deeper ethical, moral, and existential questions though :)

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

zellunit — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:17:12 -0000

excellent point. i didn't want to make a long post even longer by jumping into this, but you are probably correct and there's no way they could have sold.

that said, i still have faith that they are ballsy and would have gone for the homerun had the choice been 100% theres :)

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

immad — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:11:03 -0000

Matt aren't you missing Matt Maroon's (obvious) point that Xobni could not sell even if the founders wanted to. Xobni did a VC round at around $10m post, how could they sell for only $20m?

Either way, I wouldn't consider them that ballsy, if you have done a $5m round and are doing really well by many measure why would you settle for a $20m exit? I am sure they pay themselves more than enough to live happily.

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

gsiener — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:11:32 -0000

Re: #4 I had the idea a few years back (before gmail) that it would be great to track all communications together (email + chat + comments + ?). I believe Microsoft Journal was a shot at showing visual history, but it never took off.

What scares me is you could take your example to the next level: You assign the "Mom" category to your mom's email, and it automatically writes thank yous and that happy mother's day email you forgot to send! How many of our relationships could coast on w/o user input?

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

noah — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:10:12 -0000

My initial reaction would be to cash out.

However, with their vc funding it's likely a 1-2x return would not be significant for the investors. As well, if you are enjoying what you are working then the amount of money really doesn't matter. While at FB, Mark could have cashed out for the billions a long time ago but he was always satisfied to continue working/growing the product. To each his own.

Re: ~2v2@GoW!!!~

Richard Hollerith — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:08:35 -0000

Is it not unethical to deliberately cause a person to develop an addiction to something that does not help him control reality or his own mind in any way but is simply a distraction from reality? Is this not like selling addictive drugs?