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Re:Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come by slpsys on Friday June 26, 2009 @07:18PM (#676331)
“I think it’s not a technology problem,” he said. “I think it’s a human problem, that there are very few people like you and me.”

While I can certainly sympathize with someone whose dream goes unfulfilled, blaming the Internet at large for not 'getting it' rather than acknowledging you were solving a problem no one apparently had is pretty haughty.

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Re:Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come by gruseom on Friday June 26, 2009 @11:02PM (#676541)
I didn't notice any blaming. I thought he was just saying that the market wasn't as big as he'd hoped.

Many successful startups originate in founders trying to solve a problem they themselves had. This may be a case where they did that, but it turned out there weren't enough other people like them.

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