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Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by tbrooks »

jasonmcalacanis wrote: post #16
37prime wrote: post #11

Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL. Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).

1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable. 2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010. 3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com. 4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer. 5. This Week in Startups about to have it's…

"A private thing that should have stayed private is now public."

Funny... Sam Odio thought the same thing.

http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who...

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by misuba »

Takeaway: if it's email, it's on a server somewhere; if it's on a server somewhere, it's best to assume it'll be public record someday. If it's an outburst, maybe you should do it by phone.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by jayliew »

Having been through a few conflicts myself, as an independent observer and as one of the parties in the conflict .. I'm not taking sides, but just wanting to note that although the employer definitely could have handled it better, I have a feeling we're only scratching the tip of the surface and we don't know much what really happened between the employer-employee.

The "pack and get out now" is actually very standard upon resignation, but more so for sales people, less engineers, unless .. there's something going on (which obviously we don't know).

Btw, as the employee: resigning via email is also not very classy, and could be done better: e.g. handing an official resignation letter in person to your direct superior face to face.

Just a suggestion. Also, if you want to air your dirty laundry, come forth with the stuff that you didn't tell us about. There's 2 kinds of lies:

(1) commission: you explicitly fabricate non-facts

(2) omission: where you fail to mention details that matter

Both are still lies. I think the employee knows how snowball started, but is refraining from telling the public. Which if that was the case, perhaps it shouldn't have been brought to light in the first place - because that'd mean the employee wants public to make a decision street-justice-style based on incomplete information.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by jacquesm »

jasonmcalacanis wrote: post #16
37prime wrote: post #11

Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL. Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).

1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable. 2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010. 3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com. 4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer. 5. This Week in Startups about to have it's…

1. you could be #3, I couldn't care less, mahalo does not exactly contribute, it just rehashes.

2. good for you

3. The only one I've heard of is 'blippy', and that's only because of some fairly sloppy coding there.

4. great. I'm fairly sure they would have made it without your personal contribution though, you can't possibly take personal credit for that, just like Paul Graham doesn't take personal credit for dropbox or any one of the other YC investments.

And so on. The list would indeed be silly if you continued.

You're one hell of an entrepreneur, I'll give you that but you're way out of line in how you treat people and the basic business model of mahalo simply sucks.

Do you really believe that even if such email should stay private that that absolves you of what you wrote there?

I used to look up to you, that has changed dramatically in the last 18 months or so.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by Frazzydee »

misuba wrote: post #22

Takeaway: if it's email, it's on a server somewhere; if it's on a server somewhere, it's best to assume it'll be public record someday. If it's an outburst, maybe you should do it by phone.

No matter how many times people are reminded of this, they will continue to make the same mistake.

And it will continue to be amusing gossip for the rest of us :)

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#26

Post by Andys »

jasonmcalacanis wrote: post #16
37prime wrote: post #11

Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL. Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).

1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable. 2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010. 3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com. 4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer. 5. This Week in Startups about to have it's…

No, to be professional would mean not sending that private email in the first place. It actually makes me wonder how you treat your customers if they piss you off.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by jacquesm »

tbrooks wrote: post #21
jasonmcalacanis wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable. 2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010. 3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com. 4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer. 5. This Week in Startups about to have it's…

"A private thing that should have stayed private is now public." Funny... Sam Odio thought the same thing. http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who...

Touché, I'd completely forgotten about that little gem.

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

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Post by jacquesm »

brk wrote: post #20
jacquesm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need to wonder, considerably more, but they've also hired considerably more.

Of course they've hired considerably more, I think that's why the parent to your comment said "(proportionally)".

I could have sworn that wasn't there when I first answered.

/me needs glasses ?

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#29

Post by mikebo »

ck2 wrote: post #13

I've never worked at a company where I tried to be professional and gave 2 weeks notice and was NOT immediately shown the door (hence I learned to prepare and not be surprised). Does it really happen in this day and age? Don't companies lockout high value employees immediately as a matter of security and anti-sabotage?

I've had several developer coworkers leave -- it's always been with 2 week notice, a nice lunch, and a farewell e-mail from the boss thanking them for their contributions.

Would not work somewhere that handled employees leaving that way. Sorry Mr. Calacanis!

Re: Jason Calacanis at his finest

#30

Post by marilyn »

jasonmcalacanis wrote: post #16
37prime wrote: post #11

Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL. Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).

1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable. 2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010. 3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com. 4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer. 5. This Week in Startups about to have it's…

Way to toot your own horn. 37prime is clearly quite right about the attention seeking part too.
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