Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler

http://www.newsweek.com/id/62330?gt1=10547

by jcwentz • 19 years ago

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mattjaynes2• 19 years ago

BREAKING NEWS: Older person attempts to seem younger!

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pg• 19 years ago

It's not unusual for people to try to seem younger, but this is the first case in my knowledge of a startup founder lying about his age.

joshwa• 19 years ago

Is that you, Captain_Obvious?

mechanical_fish• 19 years ago

Now we know why so many successful startups seem to be founded by people under thirty.

ajkates• 19 years ago

Again, it's a trust thing. Communities are based entirely upon trust, and no one wants to trust an old geezer.

Plus, it probably helped him pick up the ladies.

jadams• 19 years ago

Yeah, it's better to trust a liar than a "geezer". What is this, the freaking Cultural Revolution?

P.S. That was something that happened before 1985.

DanielBMarkham• 19 years ago

Never trust anybody over 30, man :)

mynameishere• 19 years ago

This calls for an EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING:

http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html

mattjaynes2• 19 years ago

lol, great find ;)

"Are you telling me the nightly nacho cheese masks aren't working?"

gojomo• 19 years ago

Myspace is from LA. If I moved to LA, I'd probably subtract 5 years from my age, too. It's local custom.

patrickg-zill• 19 years ago

Just like Omidyar and eBay, where they floated the story about him just wanting to sell his girlfriend's Pez collection or whatever it was that the PR firm dreamed up.

vlad• 19 years ago

Or YouTube and the dinner party story. Plus it had three co-founders, not two.

honewatson• 19 years ago

I'd lie about my age to for $510 million dollars.

nextmoveone• 19 years ago

could have sworn it was $580?

asdflkj• 19 years ago

If the audience is shallow enough to like a site more based on the founder's age, it's only fitting that he should lie about it. Caesar's to Caesar.

zaidf• 19 years ago

Next: Tom is not the founder of MySpace.

People should read up the history of MySpace.

aswanson• 19 years ago

F+%$ it. It worked.

Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler

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