DISQUS

VentureBeat: Silicon Valley & the Industry of Cool

  • Jeremy Stoppelman · 3 years ago
    My quote was taken out of context and I can't take credit for it since it's a Simpsons line:

    http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F31.html

    Rainier: The film is just me in front of a brick wall for an hour and a half. It cost $80 million.

    Jay: [contemptuous] How do you sleep at night?

    Rainier: On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.

    Jay: Just asking. Yeesh!
  • Randal Leeb-du Toit · 3 years ago
    Jeremy, - as I said...(http://yoick.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/web-2envy/)...methinks Erika has Web 2.envy.

    Randal
  • BlazeFahrenheit · 3 years ago
    Um ... this is nothing new. It used to be my job to throw elaborate dot com parties back in 1998. We had everyone from Elvira, Matt & Trey (Southpark creators) and Tim Burton alongside a sea of free booze and schwag. I remember hiring fire eaters and contortionists. Nevermind that the piles of money were all imaginary - the women were all real and some of the friendships were too. It's Revenge of the Nerds, baby - bring it on!
  • Jim Forbes · 3 years ago
    it's outrageous activites such as this from new startups playing with other people's money that makes me believe that more pure darwinism needs to be brought into play within Silicon Valley. but a better path than that would be to cull the herd and make an example in the abbatoir out of fractious yearling bulls and cows.

    Curmudgeonly yours,
    Jim Forbes
    Escondido, CA
  • Startups.in/India · 3 years ago
    Now I see why Yelp needed $10mil more.. :)
  • rulepark · 3 years ago
    10 millions of funding ended up in the bar?The web 2.0 idea and the money.We will have another BUBBLE 2.0..
  • Rob Tsai · 3 years ago
    Great coverage as always, Matt.

    If I had to guess, I'd say I smell a Smirnoff TeaParty sponsorship brewing... Wouldn't it be great to be the Biz Dev guy (or gal) on that deal?
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