Valleywag: Bow down and Worship Xobni's Party Throwing Skills

http://valleywag.com/tech/party-report/bow-down-and-worship-xobnis-party+throwing-skills-291473.php

by gaborcselle • 19 years ago

18 17 19 years ago

valleywag.com

There's no such thing as bad press.

staunch3• 19 years ago

Can't miss these two, they're damn funny:

Part 1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N00/1162778055/in/set-...

Part 2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N00/1163633584/in/set-...

I've been a Xobni-skeptic since I saw the ads for product managers/QA people, office, etc. They appear to be doing a lot of obviously wrong stuff. I know they're smart and I do wish them luck, but it looks to me as if they're mostly interested in enjoying the funded startup ride.

gaborcselle2• 19 years ago

Everyone needs a party sometimes! Valleywag maybe went a bit overboard in dissing our excesses. :-)

staunch3• 19 years ago

I saw this picture and I had to do it. Hopefully you have a good sense of humor :-)

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4862/xobanyqj1.jpg

brezina• 19 years ago

I found our office on craiglist. It is dirt cheap for SF. Oh, and we negotiated the contract so that we haven't paid a dime for the first 3 months.

When you are making another sticky notes web app QA might not matter, but when you are making fundamental business tools, I think it is one of the most important roles in a company.

mattmaroon2• 19 years ago

Smash

menloparkbum2• 19 years ago

yC funding does seem to come with magical PR pixie dust.

There were a lot of startup parties the past two weekends. One I went to had an amazing DJ, amazing workspace, crazy antics, free booze, and hot babes. None of them were covered by any blog press. In contrast, valleywag writes about the one that looks like the math club had a mixer with the physics department in the grad school dorms, complete with fluorescent lighting...

staunch3• 19 years ago

Yeah it didn't look very extravagant at all. It just seem strange to me given the context. T-shirts that say "I'm excited to be here"?. It reinforced my previous image of some guys enjoying "the startup life" more than anything else. Maybe I'm not supposed to make comments like this though. I really do wish them well, I'm just skeptical.

aswanson• 19 years ago

In the lower left, did you see the blue X? They have their own mousepads!

blored2• 19 years ago

XOBNI IS AMAZING AT GENERATING PRESS.

They have an article written about them in valleywag pre-launch. Way to go Matt, Adam and co. You guys are truly a cut above.

pg• 19 years ago

That was a good party. One of the things they discovered was that anywhere.fm is the perfect stereo for a party, if you put it up on a big monitor.

gaborcselle2• 19 years ago

Thanks Paul! Sorry for making you endure Windows.

augy2• 19 years ago

If that was their "we just got an office" party, imagine what it will be like if they go ipo. Fingers crossed.

blored2• 19 years ago

Up-voted for hilarity.

mattmaroon2• 19 years ago

Jessica promised to do keg stands if any of her flock IPOed. I'm hoping we'll be the ones to do it, but if another Y C startup beats us there we're definitely still holding her to her word (and a keg).

augy2• 19 years ago

I hope you do too. Can I RSVP right now?

dawie• 19 years ago

Good to see that you invited some girls

Valleywag: Bow down and Worship Xobni's Party Throwing Skills

Related Stories