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by tbrooks • 16 years ago

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peregrine• 16 years ago

Dave McClure comes off pretty poorly in my opinion, everyone else came off very intelligent with excellent points.

EDIT: To back up my point about Dave, he focuses completely on building profits. Its easy to say "Hey Apple makes 7cents on the dollar" but it shows a lack of foresight.

mrshoe• 16 years ago

Except he didn't say that at all.

I believe pg commented that we're all slaves to Steve Jobs and Dave McClure remarked that 70 cents on the dollar is not a bad wage for slavery. His point was that you can hardly call it slavery when your cut of the profits is significantly bigger than your master's.

pingswept4• 16 years ago

One of those dudes looked at his cell phone while he was talking to the audience. That is just sad.

tbrooks3• 16 years ago

That's Brad Feld. He has a rule that if his wife calls, he picks up the phone no matter what.

I do the same thing with my wife, I think it's reasonable.

pingswept4• 16 years ago

Is it frequently the case that your immediate attention averts disasters? My own experience is that I rarely avert disasters, especially over the phone. In fact, I don't know of a case where that's happened.

Of course, I don't really begrudge you your rule, but if you were giving a presentation, I don't think I'd show up, unless it were a play about a person who answers his phone a lot.

abstractbill2• 16 years ago

I have the same rule (combined with an understanding that my wife will generally text or email me instead, unless it's a real emergency). It works for us.

ique• 16 years ago

This is sort of off topic, but check out pg's thighs toward the end of the video, he looks ripped!

Do you like, do bike-marathons or something pg?

Edit: Downvote? Really? I'm not being rude or anything.. I'm just saying; the guys legs look great.

pvdm• 16 years ago

pg mentioned in passing that he would not get involved with Android projects. He'd rather fund Chrome projects. Wonder if he would elaborate on that ?

pg• 16 years ago

I didn't say I'd rather fund Chrome projects, but that it seemed Chrome might do more to protect us from an Apple monopoly on smartphone apps than Android.

The more powerful Chrome lets browser-based apps be, the less developers need to build native apps to do what they want. At the limit of that process, the iPhone and iPad are merely beautiful devices that run browsers. Safari, of course, but if Chrome took the lead in adding features to browsers to let apps do more, Safari would have to follow suit, however grudgingly.

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