Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble

Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by wavephorm on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:56PM (#3229978)

Absolutely true. However the article leans toward framing him as a visionary capable of superhuman feats:

  "IBM didn't survive the PC, none of the PC guys survived
  the web, and I don't think any of the web guys will 
  survive the post-PC world,"

Bill Nguyen is implying that Color.com will do what IBM, Microsoft, and Facebook can't, and survive the post-pc world. And there is no evidence he is capable of this since he flipped every company he started.

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Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by arihant on Sunday November 13, 2011 @01:27AM (#3230170)

No, he is implying some startup will do what IBM, Microsoft and Facebook can't. Historically speaking, this is a decent analogy. After all, Facebook did what Microsoft and Google couldn't. Apple did what IBM couldn't.

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Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by i386 on Sunday November 13, 2011 @02:29AM (#3230242)

Why even mention it if he doesn't think that Color could be the disruptive company that can make that leap?

I doubt he's saying "Yeah a bunch of companies are going to fail at this, including Color, but hey throw cash at us anyway". That doesn't make for a good sell at all.

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Re:Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble by mathattack on Sunday November 13, 2011 @10:26PM (#3232682)

Isn't the job of spinster to imply that? :-)

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