“We’ll be the first to admit that, by conventional standards, Yelp can seem weird.”
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, referring obliquely to the freakazoid culture of obsessive business reviewers on his site, Official Yelp Blog, 1 March 2010
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THE DAY THE MUSIC SIGHED
“With RealNetworks and Verizon Wireless, we’re creating a unique and engaging experience that also reflects our own strategy of allowing fans to go narrow and deep into the musical genres they love.”
MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath, introducing a new online music service while failing to understand that her company is all about being shallow, RealNetworks.com, 21 August 2007
LOVE IS IN THE ERROR
“The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack. We love our customers too much to let that happen.”
Skype employee Villu Arak, on how the eBay-owned Internet phone service hated its customers so much that it let a software glitch prevent them from using it, Skype Heartbeat blog, 16 August 2007
REALITY DISTORTION FAILED
THE REGULATOR-READY BUSINESS for 28 June 2007 The regulators still win. That’s just the rule. All the more reason you want to be cooperative and make the government think they won. Microsoft lawyer Marshall Phelps, on how his company learned to roll over and play dead ever so convincingly, News.com, 28 June 2007
FIRST YOU GET THE MONEY, THEN YOU GET THE POSERS for 27 June 2007 I really like the Valley now because they’re more fundamentally focused on making money than hype. Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, who clearly hasn’t wandered outside a hard-drive factory for a couple of years, The New York Times, 27 June 2007
THE DAY THE MUSIC CHARGED
for 26 June 2007
How is it that a board set up by Congress would ask a growing
business to pay more than 100% of its revenues in royalties? We’re
all asking ourselves that question and, to be honest, still
scratching our heads a bit.
Yahoo Music general manager Ian Rogers, on his company’s abject
failure to lobby for more profitable song-licensing fees, Yodel
Anecdotal, 25 June 2007
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