Paul Graham's near-death experience

http://valleywag.com/tech/acquisitions/paul-grahams-near+death-experience-295574.php

by nickb • 19 years ago

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pg5• 19 years ago

The fact that Viaweb happened to be at the mercy of its investors at that moment hardly meant it was worthless. In fact it generated lots of revenue for Yahoo. I believe roughly the same amount as Broadcast.com, which cost 100x as much.

far33d2• 19 years ago

This comment made me think "wouldn't it be weird if PG owned a basketball team?"

pg5• 19 years ago

If I had that much money, I'd never buy a sports team. I'd found a town. That's the luxury I dream about. Probably just as well I can't have it though; it would be a huge time sink.

ereldon• 19 years ago

if this non-sequitur post is the best valleywag can do, seems like the rest of silicon valley gets it a lot worst.

zach• 19 years ago

I like how they have to add "a rich sum for the time." It's like "You kids out there getting $50M Series C's, understand that $50M was a lot of money back then!"

palish2• 19 years ago

"We suspect Paul Graham will not be very popular in Sunnyvale today."

What's that even mean? Who is "we"? This post is sensationalist to the max.

nickb• 19 years ago

They mean Yahoo!.

run4yourlives• 19 years ago

Wow, that's a post with zero substance. I can't possibly vote this up.

Out of all the great stuff in Paul's last essay to comment on, this is the best they could do?

nmeyer• 19 years ago

One of the dumbest posts I've ever seen on valleywag.

kkim• 19 years ago

Considering the competition, that's quite a statement.

rms6• 19 years ago

I think they're posting from Burning Man, so I would blame this nonsensical post on the drugs.

gscott• 19 years ago

Right, when the giant man was burned early it was found that it was really put together with marijuana plants. Hence the entire population at the event were confused why they had the munchies so bad and wrote only 'quicky' articles between snacks.

Paul Graham's near-death experience

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