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0 pointstannerburson16y ago0 comments

I've met Noah on at least one occasion. He's a very nice, and very bright guy. But he is a completely accidental entrepreneur, so I'm not surprised at all that he struggled in an interview like this. In fact, this might be the first big real-time interview he's done.

My reading of the situation tells me that he's just really uncomfortable talking about the conversations he's had with VCs, and doesn't know how to convey that without being awkward.

That said I've never really understood his motivation for handling TwitPic the way that he does, but that's definitely not my place to criticise.

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icey16y ago

That would certainly explain some of the nervousness. He seems like a nice guy, and the interview was interesting for the most part. I've just seen the NDA game ("sorry, I can't go into details, everything is under NDA with mystery players") played before so it stuck out to me.

To be 100% clear, my post was purely speculation. I was just about to delete it before I saw you'd replied.

jasonlbaptiste16y ago

most companies are started by accidental entrepreneurs. steve jobs was a hippie basically, larry+sergey were doing phd work, zuck wanted to get laid at harvard instead of studying for finals, etc.

crocowhile16y ago

In fact, it seems to me most of the succesful folks are motivated by the fact they are going to do something cool and have fun and not necessarily by the idea of making billions. That is the one thing I cannot stand about mixergy: it's always about millions, billions and gazillons.

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