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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/10/30/current-2-billion-or-bust/

  • Danny R · 2 years ago
    Wow! What a hit piece on Al Gore!

    I cannot really find anything on your post where Al Gore valued the company at $2B. One of the investors valued it at such and that investor doesn't to happen be Al Gore.

    "On the other hand, you have a couple companies, one headed up by a fellow with one of the biggest egos in the world (and that’s before he’s been showered with every award imaginable),..."

    Why is this necessary? This is the worst post I have seen on Mashable. It is a commentary meant to blast Al Gore. Did "The Inconvenient Truth" tick you off? Fine, global warming is a myth but let's put some objectivity here.

    You can't prove that Al Gore himself made the $2B valuation. This is merely an attack on him.
  • Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins · 2 years ago
    You're right, Danny. It's an editorial that views something negatively, but it's less about Al Gore, and more about Current.

    I've never really hidden my feelings about Current or Gore, but I realize as I'm writing this comment that lot of that is on my own site, not here. So you may not know that.

    I never asserted that Al Gore made the statement, though. My indictment of Gore has to do with the ego-induced delusions of grandeur that he clearly has bled over into his corporate culture.