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Why are all the comments so negative on this thread? Aaron has personally contributed a ton to the communities he's a part of and I have no doubt the same goes for LivingSocial. It's a company of thousands of employees and one that most definitely has a massive consumer impact. Whether or not the business thrives or fails, few people on this site can say they founded something with anywhere near as much a reach as LS…
Why are all the comments so negative on this thread? Aaron has personally contributed a ton to the communities he's a part of and I have no doubt the same goes for LivingSocial. It's a company of thousands of employees and one that most definitely has a massive consumer impact. Whether or not the business thrives or fails, few people on this site can say they founded something with anywhere near as much a reach as LS…
Because it's Hacker News. Nothing gets reported here without half of this community being obnoxiously negative about it, as if we've all could have built something like LivingSocial if we wanted to.
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Because it's Hacker News. Nothing gets reported here without half of this community being obnoxiously negative about it, as if we've all could have built something like LivingSocial if we wanted to.
Or, because, you know, the many, stated legitimate reasons people have? But yeah, why consider those when you can just pretend like an entire community is dumber you?
Not entire: half. And not dumber: negative.
But I rest my case.
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Or, because, you know, the many, stated legitimate reasons people have? But yeah, why consider those when you can just pretend like an entire community is dumber you?
I'm not sure who you're responding to, because: Not entire: half. And not dumber: negative. But I rest my case.
That's certainly implying that the negative posts are both un-constructive and omitting important & obvious context. That sounds a lot like "dumber" to me.
Is anything LivingSocial did something to be proud of? It seems like the majority of those who invested in or did business with LivingSocial suffered greatly. That's fine, sometimes things don't work out, but I don't know why you'd brag about it. "millions of consumers around the world have experienced their local cities because of our products" Sounds like he is reaching, just a bit...
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Or, because, you know, the many, stated legitimate reasons people have? But yeah, why consider those when you can just pretend like an entire community is dumber you?
I'm not sure who you're responding to, because: Not entire: half. And not dumber: negative. But I rest my case.
Living Social -- more than any other company in the last 5 years -- showed that the DC area startup community is alive and well and can play with the big boys in the consumer internet space. LS almost single-handedly overcame the region's inferiority complex in this regard. I hope Aaron is sufficiently proud of the role he played there.
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Or, because, you know, the many, stated legitimate reasons people have? But yeah, why consider those when you can just pretend like an entire community is dumber you?
I'm not sure who you're responding to, because: Not entire: half. And not dumber: negative. But I rest my case.