Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble
by felipemnoa on Saturday November 12, 2011 @10:44PM
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So he is missing a Wozniak, I guess.
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No, he's missing a Wozniak and a Jobs.
Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble
by wavephorm on Saturday November 12, 2011 @10:55PM
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But there was nothing in the article that gives me the feeling he is anything like Steve Jobs. He's just phenomenal at the flip, and that says a lot about what the Silicon Valley VC's that invested in Color are after.
He flips companies. That's nice and everything, but it's not innovation. He's essentially a parasite.
Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble
by OstiaAntica on Sunday November 13, 2011 @05:30AM
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"Parasite" is unfair. You still need guys like him to agitate, to unsettle and disrupt the marketplace. Color was a pretty innovative idea, it was just terribly executed both in technology and marketing.
Yeah, that's unfair...I retract that. But I wouldn't suggest for a second that you don't need "guys like him" i.e. great salespeople who can sell ice to eskimos. That's why I find his arrogance so over the top insofar as he compares himself to Jobs and other innovators.