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There is no Jake Frink

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Re: There is no Jake Frink

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Post by rmc » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

mlinsey wrote: post #13

OK, so this is the second time in a week I'm going to have to post this PG quote: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers." Edit: it looks like Jiggity (aka Jong-Moon Kim, Warp Prism's creator) has gon…

I wonder if part of the doubt is due to Redditors not believing that one person could found a company, and that one person could do so much. Might that shine an uncomfortable light on some people?

Re: There is no Jake Frink

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Post by rdl » Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 7:41 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #15

So I have a friend. For the purpose of this post, I'm going to call him Hideyuki Chikafuji. That isn't his name, but it gives the right sort of feel. He works as a well-paid professional in an industry which isn't investment banking, but could be. He has a degree from Northwestern in, well, let's call it Physics. Magna cum laude. What question do you think he gets asked in every job interview? If your answer was "Do…

I assume you're talking about Andrew Warner, which is an assumed name (I think the original was super obviously Russian Jewish or something); I remember that he went into this on Mixergy with someone else who had also changed his name.

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