Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50

Re:Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50 by mariorz on Sunday June 28, 2009 @02:22PM (#677912)

please stop submitting or voting up stories like this. HN is not a place to read obituaries and it never leads to any kind of interesting discussion.

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Re:Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50 by JoeH on Sunday June 28, 2009 @02:31PM (#677928)

A month ago I would have agreed with this statement, but after watching a couple episodes of the "Pitchmen" on the Discovery channel, I found Billy Mays and the whole process of promoting products very relevant to me as a startup founder.

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Re:Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50 by mariorz on Sunday June 28, 2009 @03:20PM (#677987)

the process of him decomposing under the earth is not relevant to you as a startup founder though.

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Re:Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50 by diego on Sunday June 28, 2009 @02:30PM (#677926)

It depends on the person. If a prominent figure in the tech community dies, people might discuss interesting anecdotes and maybe first-hand accounts here. You can't have a hard-and-fast rule like that.

Also, it seems that people in general are a bit oversensitized right now regarding celebrity deaths. On Twitter at least Billy Mays is getting more mentions than Farrah Fawcett did.

http://twist.flaptor.com/?span=168&gram=billy+mays%2C+fa...

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Re:Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50 by petercooper on Sunday June 28, 2009 @03:03PM (#677974)

Or Michael Jackson, clearly.

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