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> Scott Jensen <RecreationalPo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > "shr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <shr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > Where to get him/her?
> > > How to bring him/her aboard?
>
> > Realistically, you cannot. Sorry, but you cannot. Not at this
> > stage. You're just a pipe dream to such a person.
>
> I've seen IPOs of companies whose business plans consisted of a large
> blurb of techno-babble coupled with a a few first-time VP's from
> companies that grew so fast their socks didn't fit. Some went to jail,
> some didn't. Whether I'm a pipe dream or not is dependent on my CEO's
> ability to _sell_ that dream.
How about you try corresponding with us civilly, drop the attitude,
and listen? Ask questions, don't jump to conclusions, don't fight
what you don't like, and try to learn something rather than trying to
prove to us that you know everything when clearly you don't. You're
coming across as if you know all the answers so why the Hell are you
here? You ask questions but argue when our replies don't fit your
warped idea of how businesses operates.
That you saw others do something means nothing. You were on the
outside looking in and very apparently don't even possess a small
fraction of the business knowledge to make an adequate evaluation.
You have a clear distaste for business. You are exactly what you
despise in businessmen. You think business is all about smoke and
mirrors. You think it is all about fooling people. You're the kind
of person that if your business ever did get if the ground would give
business a bad name.
> > Your stock is worthless at the moment. How much is a million shares
> > of a pipe dream worth? Zip. Nothing.
>
> It is worth what it can be sold for.
It is all a con game to you.
> > > What personality traits should I look for?
>
> > I would more recommend you first change your attitude towards CEOs
> > before anything else.
>
> Absolutely. I should never consider someone who couldn't take a joke.
Now if only you could tell a joke.
> > And if you ever get such a CEO, realize that you're then out of the
> > driver's seat. He runs the show and must run the show. No backseat
> > driving by you. He will answer to the Board of Directors but your
> > voice on that will be so small it will rarely be heard. The ones that
> > will be heard are the representatives of the financiers and investors
> > sitting on the board and those that have a HUGE amount of experience
> > steering such a company to greater heights.
>
> I have no real beef with experience. Experience good. But there is no
> job in the modern tech company that is monolithic.
Nope, that would be the CEO. The buck truly stops with them.
> Perhaps "expert advisor" is a better turn-of-phrase than
> "Technician".
No, "expendable instantly-replaceable grunt" would be more accurate.
> > But he isn't getting the money because of his business plan. He's
> > really getting the money because of who he is.
>
> Or who he _was_ when the op****tunity rolled around the first time.
First, he made the op****tunity. Second, he IS and not "_was_".
> Did he build this thing or was he installed by a board?
Built.
> > Are you such a person? If you are, you might be able to do
> > as he did. If you're not, you must grow your mighty tree from a tiny
> > nut.
>
> I could be. But frankly, if I can buy a placebo I'm quite fine with
> that. I built this thing because I'm confident people will want it.
Please show me one inventor that doesn't say this about their gizmo.
> I spent years working up to this point.
And the world could care less.
> I can do the engineering,
As can any number of expendable instantly-replaceable grunts.
> I understand the math as it applies to the business, I understand a bit
> of the psychology as it applies to the application of power and the
> manipulation of markets.
No, you don't. You have a very warped view of business and how
businesses operate. A very Technician viewpoint. All the bitterness
and half the calories.
> But frankly, most people bore the **** out of me.
The feeling is probably mutual.
> I can stroke ego's...
I sincerely doubt that.
> ...for only so many hours in a day, after which I need clean air, a
> dangerous hobby, and the kind of terse conversation that one only
> finds in the presence of men of action.
You mean when you try to beat your high score on Donkey Kong with your
other geek buddies watching on?
> Besides, coding requires long stretches of uninterrupted work.
So does working in a coal mine.
> I didn't get here by being a socialite...
Where is here? You got yourself a little invention and now want
someone to take it off your hands, make it a big success, and you
unbelievably rich. I think your Help Wanted ad for a CEO should be
titled "Wanted: Fairy Godmother".
> ...and am from time-to-time abrasive as hell.
And that is what you should be actually working on. Who in the world
would want to work for or work with an asshole like yourself?
Honestly, who would? If you think us business people will tolerate a
jerk like you because of money, you're in for a big surprise. But
then, you're so clueless about business, you're in for lots of
surprises.
Scott Jensen
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