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Re:How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it ... by CaveTech on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @12:06PM (#4871870)
As someone pointed out earlier, Zap.com is a publicly traded company, with a 5.5m market cap. The odds of this being given away for anything less than 5.5m is about as close to 0% as you can get.
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Re:How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it ... by paulsutter on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @12:17PM (#4871935)
The real history is a lot more colorful than that. In the first dot-com boom, Zapata was a natural gas and fish meal company that tried to take over Excite (a major portal at that time) by rebranding itself with the name Zap.com [1].

They got widespread mockery and bad press coverage for that, and no longer use the domain.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation

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