Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ashton Kutcher is portraying Steve Jobs in an upcoming movie.
Right, I realized that. I guess I don't grok what RapGenius and these annotations are about.
He's an investor.
Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech
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#12Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…
Hey Pud, there was actually a chapter on this in the YC book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive/dp... - with a ton of interesting debate between them and Harj Taggar on it. Anyone who has ever tried to name a startup can definitely relate.
I believe they're eventually planning on silos, like Stack Exchange, but are focusing on the main brand initially.
Their thinking could have obviously changed since launch, though.
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#13semi-related: I saw the trailer for Jobs before Pacific Rim and it was cut to be laughably bad, like a Daily Show or MADtv sketch. I have low hopes for the movie, but the trailer seemed almost intentionally terrible.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ashton Kutcher is portraying Steve Jobs in an upcoming movie.
Right, I realized that. I guess I don't grok what RapGenius and these annotations are about.
RapGenius is a YC-funded (and VC-backed) company that lets people annotate rap lyrics. BUT rap is just the initial theme that helps them fine-tune the product. It's increasingly used as a general annotation engine.
So here's a high-profile investor demonstrating exactly that point, that it can be used beyond rap.
Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech
#15Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…
> I consider him an expert.
What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]:
"It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak,
who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script.
"Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other.
"I didn't want to have much to do with that movie."
news.yc discussion of [1]:
Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech
#16Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…
>>I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name
They appear to have decided to keep it all on the rapgenius.com domain but are calling the different verticals "_____ Genius"
If you hover over 'rap' in the navbar you see a dropdown with the following:
-rock -> links to rock.rapgenius.com
-poetry -> links to poetry.rapgenius.com
-news -> links to news.rapgenius.com
On those subdomains the logo reads 'rock genius' 'poetry genius' or 'news genius'. I checked and they own the .com for each of those as well, which redirect to the subdomains. They also have corresponding Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Tech Genius next please!
Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech
#17Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…
> I think it'd be neat if RapGenius became as broad as Wikipedia.
Yeah, i think it's pretty trivial for the wikipedia folks to implement a modal popup...
Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech
#18Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…
> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script. "Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other. "I didn't want to have much to do with that movie." [1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m... news.yc discussion of [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
Woz is not commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.
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#19semi-related: I saw the trailer for Jobs before Pacific Rim and it was cut to be laughably bad, like a Daily Show or MADtv sketch. I have low hopes for the movie, but the trailer seemed almost intentionally terrible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryTz9iBqEI
They show Jobs and Woz with the caption "It only takes one person..." Nice :-\
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#20Sorry..what's the significance of this (I feel like I'm missing something)?
It seems to be some of the usual Reality Distortion Field in effect by someone who feels they really appreciate and understand who Jobs was and what his inner-most thoughts are.