[bunnymancer]

Can confirm. Was one of those kids.

We built a shitty FB app with some fancy features and sold the shit out of it as the next big thing in that space.

It was average at best, they bought it, we made bank, worked for half a year and left to start a company doing what we want to do, without needing any funding.

[ithinkinstereo]

Familiar story... quite a few of the acquisitions were run by former Google APMs that worked directly/under Marissa. Most / all of these people are marketers / non-technical product guys... lots of the startups that were acquired had beautiful design and good PR but delivered underwhelming experiences beyond the shiny veneer.

I have to say though that Marissa seems like a great boss to work for. She definitely rewards loyalty!

The next great SV satire should be a House of Cards parody. House Brin & Page vs House Bezos vs House Zuckerberg.

[k__]

lol

How would it go?

Brin & Page and their academics try to get everything scientifically done while the Zuckerberg hackers run circles around them and Bezos sells both of them the infrastructure for their fights?

[owenversteeg]

I've got to ask -- what was your company, and what is the company that you're working on now?

[whamlastxmas]

Sort of doubt he'd give out his identity after a statement like that.