The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
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Re: The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
#2Oh, how I wish it were mandatory for everyone to include a "view as single page" button, instead of planting a bunch of tiny clickable digits at the bottom.
These days it happens more and more often that I will not read an article if I can't get it into Instapaper.
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#3Wow. Who would have known this would all happen at a file sharing site like YouSendIt. It makes you wonder about all the stories out there that you'll hear or know about.
A really nice read. Worth every word. I wish everything were written like this. Straight and to the point. Constantly progressing, no BS, no filler. The writing was transparent and didn't get in the way.
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#4> He says his termination agreement prohibited him from contacting them [other employees]
That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the management and board. The clowns probably included a one-way non-disparagement clause as well, which is quite humorous in light of this article.
BTW: Standard etiquette in the valley is for the employees to contact anyone who has just left the company, usually in email from the company, so there is a written record of who initiated contact.
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#5Thanks for the read and ditto on the 5 pages needing to be viewable in just 1 page.
Re: The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
#6Oh, how I wish it were mandatory for everyone to include a "view as single page" button, instead of planting a bunch of tiny clickable digits at the bottom. These days it happens more and more often that I will not read an article if I can't get it into Instapaper.
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#7I can't help at being annoyed at the part where he has a group of programmers churning out 5 iPhone apps a day.
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#8Nice read.
Re: The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
#9Oh, how I wish it were mandatory for everyone to include a "view as single page" button, instead of planting a bunch of tiny clickable digits at the bottom. These days it happens more and more often that I will not read an article if I can't get it into Instapaper.
In this case I think that Inc paginated correctly, there are 5 pages, but each page is a decent size (15-20 paragraphs), so it's a good compromise between maximizing ad revenue and annoying readers.
But yes, the next page buttons should be bigger for touchscreen users.
Re: The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
#10Thanks for the read and ditto on the 5 pages needing to be viewable in just 1 page.
The full article is close to 100 paragraphs. Putting that all on one page would intimidate and lose a bunch of readers. Even choosing to put 15-20 paragraphs on a single page makes it a "wall of text" that will put off many readers.
Of course, the real problem is the short attention span of the Internet age but it's hard to fault them for trying to avoid scaring off users.