Help Us Buy Yahoo

#1

Post by jeffiel » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

Help Us Buy Yahoo
wepay.com

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#2

Post by lpolovets » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:35 AM UTC

This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#3

Post by naner » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:37 AM UTC

Who is "we"?

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#4

Post by dotBen » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:43 AM UTC

lpolovets wrote: post #2

This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.

Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however).

Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#5

Post by molesy » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:47 AM UTC

naner wrote: post #3

Who is "we"?

"We" looks like a bunch of Twilio people.

Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style (http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.ht...) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird...

Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate half to Charity: Water. Deal?

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#6

Post by gotrythis » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:51 AM UTC

dotBen wrote: post #4

lpolovets wrote: post #2

This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.

Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however). Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.

Of course it's a shameless publicity stunt and their only goal is to give water to those in need. Good for them for being creative.

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#7

Post by bravura » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 1:56 AM UTC

gotrythis wrote: post #6

dotBen wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however). Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.

Of course it's a shameless publicity stunt and their only goal is to give water to those in need. Good for them for being creative.

their only goal is to give water to those in need.

No. dotben's point is that they have an auxiliary goal of promoting wepay (their company), which is perhaps far more of a driving factor than their support of Charity:Water.

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#8

Post by nostromo » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 2:07 AM UTC

Expect a call from the SEC shortly... ;-)

On a serious note, how much goes to WePay and how much goes to the charity? I didn't see an obvious answer on the website.

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#9

Post by billclerico » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 2:11 AM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #8

Expect a call from the SEC shortly... ;-) On a serious note, how much goes to WePay and how much goes to the charity? I didn't see an obvious answer on the website.

We (WePay) charge 3.5% for donations. See https://www.wepay.com/about/fees

Re: Help Us Buy Yahoo

#10

Post by spxdcz » Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 2:14 AM UTC

Reminds me of this (which I built a couple of years ago) - http://zombievirusfund.com/