[NOISE] Re: Exobox Screenshots

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Thu Mar 15 18:00:37 UTC 2001


After a point, the astonishing thing is not really the fact that so many people live under rocks, but that there are actually enough rocks to go around.

-- Dwight

PS: it pays to remember that the canonical definition of an "expert" is "someone who knows more and more about less and less".


03/15/2001 1:35:07 AM, "Duane Maxwell" <dmaxwell at san.rr.com> wrote:

>> (1) a VC to remain unnamed turned down exobox because he couldn't see
>> that internet appliances needed much of a UI, andanyway he already had
>> investments in such a company. Turns out this is/was emware which is
>> into networking appliances as in networked washing machines. This so
>> called expert investor couldn't even tell the difference... pathetic.
>> And these people were supposed to be leading the world into a new
>> econmy?
>
>What was particularly galling about this one was that the fund did not have
>an investment in this other company - the one dissenting partner did,
>personally, which was enough to kill the deal.  A clear case of conflict of
>interest - or it would have been if the two companies were actually doing
>the same thing.
>
>We even had term sheets from a couple of VCs on the table last spring, but
>they were pulled when the Internet bubble burst and scared everyone.  I
>think you'll see a lot of VCs living in cardboard boxes soon.
>
>Another story - a very high level engineer in a prominent processor
>manufacturer told me that object oriented programming was dead, and he was
>surprised that anyone was still doing it.  I had hoped he was just talking
>about Smalltalk (we got used to that comment), but no, he meant OOP.
>
>-- Duane
>
>







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