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As opposed to, say, App.net.
I still respect Conrad for making the initial sale (supposedly) for the benefit of his team, who, unlike Conrad himself, hadn't experienced a startup exit yet.
Before founding About.me he was a Co-Founder and CEO of Sphere, when it sold to Aol in 2008 for $25M[1] He's also a founding member and partner at True Ventures which he has seen exits such as: Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo!), Iconoculture (acquired by Corporate Executive Board), MusicNow (acquired by Circuit City), and Centive (acquired by Xactly)[2] [1] http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/aol-buys-sphere/ [2] http://www.true…
I still respect Conrad for making the initial sale (supposedly) for the benefit of his team, who, unlike Conrad himself, hadn't experienced a startup exit yet.
Before founding About.me he was a Co-Founder and CEO of Sphere, when it sold to Aol in 2008 for $25M[1] He's also a founding member and partner at True Ventures which he has seen exits such as: Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo!), Iconoculture (acquired by Corporate Executive Board), MusicNow (acquired by Circuit City), and Centive (acquired by Xactly)[2] [1] http://gigaom.com/2008/04/14/aol-buys-sphere/ [2] http://www.true…
It was curious when AOL bought About.me four days after About.me launched. 4 days. That's insanely fast. Tony Conrad must have friends at AOL. What's curious is buying the company back. Maybe Conrad is returning a favor? In the end, what About.me brings to the table is pretty boring. You want a personal site? There are 10,000 ways to do that. I don't see the value in it personally...and maybe AOL doesn't either, but…
Conrad's company previous to About.me, Sphere, was purchased by AOL in 2008: http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/14/aol-buys-sphere-content-eng...
Would you prefer the about page at about.me or using your own domain and design?
It was curious when AOL bought About.me four days after About.me launched. 4 days. That's insanely fast. Tony Conrad must have friends at AOL. What's curious is buying the company back. Maybe Conrad is returning a favor? In the end, what About.me brings to the table is pretty boring. You want a personal site? There are 10,000 ways to do that. I don't see the value in it personally...and maybe AOL doesn't either, but…
> In the end, what About.me brings to the table is pretty boring. I don't agree. If you start to think about what could disrupt LinkedIn, you realize that there's a good chance it could look like About.me. I bet in 12 months, About.me will find some direct competitors. This is a big opportunity IMO.
Every time I get one of these emails I come a little bit closer to closing my LinkedIn account. A LinkedIn replacement in the form of about.me sounds pretty appealing right now.
So who here uses about.me?
Then last month it suddenly became the page of a SF-based developer, which seems to happen all the time for 'unavailable', but unused, names. Pretty annoying.
So who here uses about.me?
I would have used it, but it always said the username I wanted was unavailable (despite the page saying "This name is available!"). Then last month it suddenly became the page of a SF-based developer, which seems to happen all the time for 'unavailable', but unused, names. Pretty annoying.