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Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by Alex3917 on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @01:07PM (#1716783)
"They want the same thing that any founder wants-- a combination of happy users, business success, and an exit."

I'm sure the founders think that's what they want, but their actions say otherwise. Anyway I didn't mean it to be venomous, I was just trying to defend Dave.

Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by zackattack on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @01:16PM (#1716815)
Would you provide us five specific examples of how their actions say otherwise? Since 90% of startups exhibit this kind of behavior, it should be easy to come up with five.
Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by Alex3917 on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @01:33PM (#1716856)
If I were to start calling out individual companies I'd only do it on my blog under my real name, not as a pseudonymous blog comment. As it stands though I wouldn't feel comfortable blogging this only because it's not my idea, I stole it from someone else.
Re:Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post by crystalis on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @03:48PM (#1717281)
So you're just impersonating Alex Krupp?