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The man who monetizes data
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#12I couldn't get past the point where he's going on about doing lead-gen for payday loans. I care about creating value far more than I care about making money. In my eyes, $500k earned by creating value is far sweeter than $5m acquired by helping loan sharks. I'm not sure if this guy had anything interesting to say, but I'm canceling my wife's shopify account based on this interview. I'd recommended them on the basis t…
"I'm canceling my wife's shopify account" ?! I don't know your wife, but I'd certainly ask mine before closing her (hypothetical) business.
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#14I couldn't get past the point where he's going on about doing lead-gen for payday loans. I care about creating value far more than I care about making money. In my eyes, $500k earned by creating value is far sweeter than $5m acquired by helping loan sharks. I'm not sure if this guy had anything interesting to say, but I'm canceling my wife's shopify account based on this interview. I'd recommended them on the basis t…
Shopify sponsors the interviewer, I don't see any relation to the interviewee.
Based on the transcript, Shopify isn't even mentioned once within the actual interview.
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#18Interesting. I can't watch the video right now, but I hope it gets into the details of what they actually do. http://revenuegrp.com/ is just a few pages of hand-wavey marketing speak. And the fact that "Payday Loans" is one of their key verticals doesn't inspire confidence.
Lead Gen. You sell the contact information for people who express an active interest in a high-margin good to the seller of such goods.
Oh. Well that's a lot less interesting. I'd much rather have a better way to market my services to users.
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#19I couldn't get past the point where he's going on about doing lead-gen for payday loans. I care about creating value far more than I care about making money. In my eyes, $500k earned by creating value is far sweeter than $5m acquired by helping loan sharks. I'm not sure if this guy had anything interesting to say, but I'm canceling my wife's shopify account based on this interview. I'd recommended them on the basis t…
"I'm canceling my wife's shopify account" ?! I don't know your wife, but I'd certainly ask mine before closing her (hypothetical) business.
It's really annoying that this horseshit comment continues to get moderated up.
thechangelog jumped to an unreasonable, and uninformed conclusion, that implies pretty horrible things about me. He knew literally nothing about the existing circumstances, yet felt free to accuse me of being the sort of person who would destroy my wife's work on a whim.
It's ridiculous that any intelligent person would up-arrow his attack on my character.
Fuck Alex for jumping to the worst possible conclusion, despite having no reason to do so.
And fuck each and every one of you who upvoted his baseless defamations.
Hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_that_broke_the_camels_bac...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shopify sponsors the interviewer, I don't see any relation to the interviewee.
Based on the transcript, Shopify isn't even mentioned once within the actual interview.
Shopify is a company that handles large amounts of customer data.
They've sponsored a very positively spun interview on monetizing such data by spamming people via SMS, "sweepstakes", promoting payday loans and other activities that I consider deeply unethical (even if legal).
I'd think that if Shopify was a reputable firm, they wouldn't want their name within a mile of this scumbag. Particularly when he's being portrayed in a positive light.