Winklevoss twins end legal row with Facebook • Hacker News Board

Re: Winklevoss twins end legal row with Facebook

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Post by spitfire » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 4:33 PM UTC

danssig wrote: post #7

roldon332 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They live in a world where Mark was just an employee that stole their idea and started another company. If only he stayed on as their employee they would own facebook. They don't understand that you can't have it both ways. You can't have a badass employee that understands your business and gets a lot done, and at the same time expect that employee to happily do most of the work while you supervise and make the profi…

No, what happened was they hired a tech person to implement their idea and that person betrayed them. It's not that he just copied their idea for his own project. Personally I'm not a believer in non-compete clauses. What he actually did was to slow down their own works so his would release first. Now that is dirty and immoral. I can't believe all the startup hopefuls on this site would root for someone who behaves l…

Secretly, they hope they're Just Like Mark(tm).

Openly, the fact that silicon valley attracts these sorts of people is why I stay very far away.

Re: Winklevoss twins end legal row with Facebook

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Post by roldon332 » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

danssig wrote: post #7

roldon332 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They live in a world where Mark was just an employee that stole their idea and started another company. If only he stayed on as their employee they would own facebook. They don't understand that you can't have it both ways. You can't have a badass employee that understands your business and gets a lot done, and at the same time expect that employee to happily do most of the work while you supervise and make the profi…

No, what happened was they hired a tech person to implement their idea and that person betrayed them. It's not that he just copied their idea for his own project. Personally I'm not a believer in non-compete clauses. What he actually did was to slow down their own works so his would release first. Now that is dirty and immoral. I can't believe all the startup hopefuls on this site would root for someone who behaves l…

Mark is NOT a role model. Millions of people get duped into sharing information they think will remain private every day. He has screwed over a lot of people in the process.

'Idea people' that hire 'tech people' don't get it. Lots of people have ideas for companies. The twins were not the first people to think of creating a friendster for colleges. They don't get to own 50% of another company because their company was delayed by a few months.

Re: Winklevoss twins end legal row with Facebook

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Post by danssig » Fri, Jun 24, 2011, 7:57 AM UTC

roldon332 wrote: post #12

danssig wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, what happened was they hired a tech person to implement their idea and that person betrayed them. It's not that he just copied their idea for his own project. Personally I'm not a believer in non-compete clauses. What he actually did was to slow down their own works so his would release first. Now that is dirty and immoral. I can't believe all the startup hopefuls on this site would root for someone who behaves l…

Mark is NOT a role model. Millions of people get duped into sharing information they think will remain private every day. He has screwed over a lot of people in the process. 'Idea people' that hire 'tech people' don't get it. Lots of people have ideas for companies. The twins were not the first people to think of creating a friendster for colleges. They don't get to own 50% of another company because their company wa…

>They don't get to own 50% of another company because their company was delayed by a few months.

I think they should get Mark's shares. It's not that their company was delayed a few months, it's that the founder of another company came in and sabotaged their company long enough to gain critical mass. In fact, I'm surprised what Mark's did isn't illegal.