[rainieri]

Yeah your call is on Youtube.

If he devotes 2 or 3 hours to trolling or taking calls while doing other stuff what's the matter?

You are doing the same thing you complain he's doing. Why do you want to get the final word that all that he's doing is squandering his wealth and talent?

Also you laughed at the fact that he was reading an AngularJS book for his new startup? Really funny. And then he seemed unsettled that you hanged up on him. Makes sense.

[sudosteph]

The problem is he put himself in harms way by trolling. That's why his bail got revoked. It's probably a part of the reason his sentence was harsh and they didn't believe he showed any remorse. I may waste my time, but it's not to harass people online and get attention for myself.

I don't have the final word at all, but he asked to call if you hated him, and I did feel some hate towards him. He had world of opportunity at his hands, plenty of wealth and connections, and he largely earned it himself, he wasn't given it. I respect that. But he squandered it all because he loved the attention he got from showing off how clever he was on social media.

The Angular thing was just funny because we couldn't figure why a guy who is a C-level exec by all measures would think learning a random web stack would give him some special insight into the world of software startups. That's what you hire people for. If he really wanted to be useful there are plenty of management or computer science-y topics that would make sense. He was obviously just reading it to show off to people who don't know any better. He cares far too deeply about what people think of him than is healthy.

I do hope he works himself out some in prison at least. Might actually be healthy for him to be offline for a while.

[rainieri]

> I may waste my time, but it's not to harass people online and get attention for myself.

Agreed. He did harass some people who insulted him or called him retarded. Mostly children or man childs.

> He was obviously just reading it to show off to people who don't know any better. He cares far too deeply about what people think of him than is healthy.

Disagree. He knows a lot about chemistry and investing too. Is that to show off or to know what he and his companies are working on? aka become a better executive if you will.

By the way he didn't squander it all. He got 7 years and when he gets back he'll hopefully continue working on helping humanity through better medicine. Hopefully.