Off Topic: This Tech Startup Is Going To Fail Spectacularly

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John Honovich
May 03, 2013
IPVM

This is not a security company, but I am so amazed by the insanity of this tech startup's behavior that I had to share. The company is RapGenius and, as a product for understanding rap lyrics, it appears to be popular and useful. However, their wild ambitions ('be the biggest site in the world), their behavior (looks like a sketch from the Onion) and their lack of a business model are bizarre. Here's a video of them:

This just strikes me as the type of company 5 or 10 years from now that people will not believe even existed. It's like that Joaquin Phoenix documentary but evidently real.

Thoughts?

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Marty Major
May 05, 2013
Teledyne FLIR

I made it to the 4:00 mark.....

You owe me 4:00 of my life back.

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John Honovich
May 05, 2013
IPVM

Come on, these guys would be awesome on a reality TV show! I read a NYTimes article where one of the co-founders claim this is just an act. It may be but why?

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Marty Major
May 05, 2013
Teledyne FLIR

Do a poll: Between the guy on the left that looks like a cross between a Miami Vice era Don Johnson and one of The Thompson Twins, and the interviewer Josh Constine's road-kill inspired 'do, which one is more deserving of a forced haircut?

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Margarita Castillo
May 05, 2013

Look like a bunch of wannabe's to me.

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Undisclosed
May 06, 2013

"Mesudarim - an Israeli sitcom broadcasting in [Israel]. The series starts when 4 friends- Tomer Levi (Asi Cohen) Erez Klyner (Eran Zarhovich), Guy Fogel (Asaf Harel) and Sagi Berlad (Maor Cohen), sell their gaming startup company to an American corporation for 217 million dollars, and deals with how the 4, very different, childhood friends deal with their newfound wealth."

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