I'd lie about my age to for $510 million dollars.
could have sworn it was $580?
Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
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Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#12Just like Omidyar and eBay, where they floated the story about him just wanting to sell his girlfriend's Pez collection or whatever it was that the PR firm dreamed up.
Or YouTube and the dinner party story. Plus it had three co-founders, not two.
Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#13BREAKING NEWS: Older person attempts to seem younger! UP NEXT: Blogdogs.com not actually written by dogs! Rumored human involvement!
It's not unusual for people to try to seem younger, but this is the first case in my knowledge of a startup founder lying about his age.
Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#14BREAKING NEWS: Older person attempts to seem younger! UP NEXT: Blogdogs.com not actually written by dogs! Rumored human involvement!
Is that you, Captain_Obvious?
Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#15If the audience is shallow enough to like a site more based on the founder's age, it's only fitting that he should lie about it. Caesar's to Caesar.
Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#16Next: Tom is not the founder of MySpace.
People should read up the history of MySpace.
Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#17This calls for an EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING: http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html
lol, great find ;)
"Are you telling me the nightly nacho cheese masks aren't working?"
Re: Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
#18F+%$ it. It worked.