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VentureBeat: Don’t stop believing — Silicon Valley lip-synchs while market burns

  • Blogger · 1 year ago
    This video belongs on stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    Am I the only one a bit perturbed that the WSJ's tech reporter is with them?
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Yeah, I was a bit puzzled then I remembered this: http://valleywag.com/392068/wall-street-journal...
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    Wow, I was expecting some really shady stuff after reading that Vwag article. Once I read the actual piece, I wasn't as upset. It seemed like turned to her colleagues for sources, and it happened to be Jessica's BF. Is it completely clean? No.

    Still, where do you draw the line? It's hard to not mix business and pleasure - but shouldn't a journalist go above and beyond to clear conflict of interest, or even the perception of it?
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Yeah, I'm not really comfortable talking too much about the WSJ article in particular, since it was actually written by a friend of mine; I was just pointing to the Valleywag post because it basically explains why a WSJ reporter would be in the video.

    Not sure I'm completely on-board with the idea that journalists should go above the "perception" of conflict of interest, though -- I mean, that would be ideal, but it's not always possible, and ultimately I'm more concerned about *real* conflicts of interest.
  • andrewbadera · 1 year ago
    whoa, who's the guy with the chubby at 1:23-1:28 or so? did that REALLY need to go on Vimeo?
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Actually, I think it's a pretty good-looking crew overall. Another VentureBeat writer pointed out that we should really give them points for the coordinated swimsuits.
  • andrewbadera · 1 year ago
    That's not "chubby" as in "fat" ...
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Oh, you kids and your slang.
  • devahaz · 1 year ago
    That place has a pretty sweet pool.
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    I know! Totally jealous.
  • Real Web 2.0 Entrepreneur · 1 year ago
    Who cares if they are taking a vacation during a down economy. The problem is they look like total douchebags in that video! They give real Web 2.0 entrepreneurs a bad name.
  • Nick O'Neill · 1 year ago
    Umm is it only me but I want to one-up them on this trip ... they are going down ...
  • dailypatricia · 1 year ago
    It's so interesting that they spent time to plan something like this out and execute it.
  • davemc500hats · 1 year ago
    dude. seriously.

    they're on vacation.

    most of them work for facebook, which has several hundred mil in the bank, and is generating another hundred mil in revenue this year. most all of them have been busting their ass working 60-80+ hour weeks for several years, and now some of them have stock options that may be freeing up, options which are seriously in the money.

    why SHOULDN'T they be partying?

    again, a reminder for all you folks who love to wail on facebook because they're not the next google, most FB employees & all-but-last-round investors are laughing all the way to the bank / market.

    deal with it.
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Yeah, I probably overreacted a bit, and also failed to make the post as clearly tongue-in-cheek as I would have liked. But I do think that the juxtaposition (of video/circumstances/general economic context) is interesting and unflattering, even if that's not really the fault of anyone actually in the video.
  • davemc500hats · 1 year ago
    and by the way, that was a pretty damn good one-shot amateur video.

    also, as noted by andrewbadera above joe green does appear to be somewhat excited. (good eye ;)
  • david · 1 year ago
    Jees, leave them alone - people can't even have fun anymore?
  • Gubatron · 1 year ago
    If you're jealous you can have a vacation like that, and you think it's disturbing, then you shouldn't go and rub it in.

    The Web 2.0 is far from over, I just see a bunch of successful people that took the time to make a really fun video (choreographed and all in one shot). If anything we'd all should try to reproduce something like this, at times where others are struggling, that even makes it more cool.

    Stop hating people that do well, we're not a communist nation.
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