Ryan Birthday pre party - 9
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Ryan Birthday pre party - 8
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Thank you, BV, but no, I don’t think I’m going to...
Thank you, BV, but no, I don’t think I’m going to read more about that, since reading more about that is depressing enough, but would also basically involve reading your comments, which are some of the most depressing on the internet on a good day.
"Technically, [Wyclef Jean] shouldn’t be eligible because he hasn’t been a resident of..."
““Technically, [Wyclef Jean] shouldn’t be eligible because he hasn’t been a resident of Haiti. And I think him not speaking French and not being fluent in Creole would be a really major issue in trying to run a really complex government, like the government in Haiti. It would kind of be like Arnold Schwarzenegger only speaking Austrian and being elected President of the United States after New York City and L.A. had burned to the ground…I think he is a great musician and he really passionately cares about Haiti. I really hope he throws his support behind someone who is really competent and really eligible.””
- _p. Pitchfork: Echo Chamber: Win Butler on Wyclef: PitchforkLatestNews (Pitchfork: Latest News)
My favorite part of this is thinking of Haiti’s government as a “really complex government.” I’m not really convinced it’s THAT complex, as governments go. ;)
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"But the idea that an uptick in angel-backed companies will result in fewer huge successes is just..."
“But the idea that an uptick in angel-backed companies will result in fewer huge successes is just silly. Yes, it’s possible that angel-backed companies are happier with smaller exits than their VC counterparts. But if the VCs see an opportunity there to become the next Google, they’re more than welcome to buy the company themselves: they certainly have $25 million lying around to do just that. More realistically, VCs can certainly take over as and when original investors feel like cashing out, just as public stockholders take over when VCs cash out in an IPO.”
Haha. Yeah. That would be awesome. But that does not seem to happen. So far as I can tell is that the new investors basically invest in the company, take a shit ton of equity, dilute the angel’s share, and tie the angel to their liquidity plans.
I mean, I suppose this COULD happen, but one rarely hears of VCs buying the angel’s shares out for a good, exitable amount, and taking up the mantle.
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Hayden - Skates
Oh man. Skates. It is totally insane how...
Hayden - Skates
Oh man. Skates. It is totally insane how influential this song was to me. You’re going to hate it at first. Hayden’s vocals can be totally annoying when he starts yelling, but that’s part of the genius. The lyrics are bordering on high school poetry, but that is also part of the genius. He just doesn’t give a fuck. It’s like folk emo. I don’t even know. It was in my head for years, I sang it everywhere I went. It had a seriously unfortunate influence on the space rock band I was in at the time, though luckily two other members were equally paradoxically obsessed with Hayden’s first album.
We discovered Hayden from Much Music, before it turned into whatever insane MTV type thing it is now, when it was just this cute little Canadian music video station. We watched a lot of Much Music - especially their video show The Wedge. We also watched a lot of MTV Latino - Ruth! - because we still loved music videos, MTV had abandoned them and YouTube wouldn’t be invented for another ten years. It was a brief blip in time and circumstances (major city cable) that obscure canadian folk artists could get played on the television in America.
Hayden’s still around, he’s still awesome, but he’s not made a record anything like this one, really, since.
I don’t know why, but this morning as I woke up on my flight from SFO to JFK upon landing, this song just popped into my head again. Poor guy. Lost his wife to the river. I always pictured the Sandy river, a relatively wild Oregonian river that ran behind my grandfather’s house when I was growing up. The kind you can’t wade in or take a boat in. That would take your wife without even giving a fuck.
If you had one day to spend $10 million, how would you spend the money?
p(formspringmeAnswer). Ha. You know, I was just looking how Jolie had answered this question, and I thought, “oh man, I could write an essay about that one.” Then I find out that I actually got asked the same question. By FORMSPRING. I am cutting them some slack, though, since my friend Cap works there, and, thus, I can conclude this question was actually asked by a real life friend in my case. ;)
The answer to this question, though, depends on what the word “spend” means. Invest? Donate? Do these count as spend? Or do you have to “buy” things? And, in “buying” can you also not be “investing,” as in am I allowed to buy like 1% of Twitter or something?
If “spending” means I can donate or give away and I had to spend it all in one day, I’d give away the vast majority of it to charity and friends. I suspect, though, this is not allowed in the asking of this question.
Assuming that “spending” meant “buying” and I had to own something tangible, I’d probably blow it all in one day on Second Market (I can’t link to it because Formspring and Tumblr don’t play well with links but here: ” http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome=UTF-8=second market market ). I’d do this mainly because presumably I could get it done in one day.
Though actually, now that I think about it, if buying largish fractions of companies on Second Market counts as “buying,” then so does buying very small fractions of companies on the NYSE or something, right? If so, I’d put it in Index funds.
Assuming neither of these are options, and I had to buy, like, STUFF, for, like, ME, I would make a ridiculous real estate deal in one day at a stupid premium to get the deal done in a day. Probably something like $7-8MM of real estate in an expensive but beautiful place, like 100 acres in the bay area, spending the other $2 mil or so on the necessary legal fees and bribes to get everything done in time. Oh, and I’d blow the last $100k on a Kelmscott Chaucer.
Assuming that the whole thing is like Brewster’s million style, and I had to have nothing to show for it, I’d take all my friends to space. 100 people pre-booked, paid in full on a Virgin Galactic party plane.
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