Snark has more weight when the person talking is successful
Must be nice, sitting on a throne throwing stones at everyone. I’m talking about Uncov. It’s been noted they have a start-up they are not tagging as Web 2.0 called Persai (gotta start distancing yourself from the Web 2.0 term, remember?). What is Persai? Who knows? At first I thought it was a killer RSS reader and needed >all those feeds to test it. I was wrong. I guess it takes a massive amount of RSS feeds and provides information. Hell, I don’t know what the fuck it is. This is the their description:
Our goal is to become the matching and recommendation technology of the internet. Our focus is on leveraging machine learning techniques to improve consumer and business user experiences with large corpora of data. We live in a world of too much information and we’re trying to create the solution.
Wait, to sit on a throne they would have had to successfully release Persai and have fame. Lemme rephrase that…Sure is easy talking shit when you haven’t done a damn thing yourself yet.
I honestly can’t fathom what they are developing that Google couldn’t drop kick in 30 days or less. Simply because Google is sitting on all that information already. And Microsoft. And Yahoo. And Amazon…wow, this could be a long list. No reason not to try though, more power too them. I’m sure they’ve thought this all out and Persai will be damn near perfect once it is released. As much shit as they talk on Uncov it has to be. Ted had some words to say about Guy Kawasaki, of Truemors fame(?), having tips on a successful startup. Check it:
Just got done reading Kawasaki taking shots at what seemed to be uncov in Entrepreneur magazine. Some quotes: “the blogosphere trashed Trumors, but that’s good for us” and “some blogger kid who needs to move out of mom’s house and start dating”. I just LOLd the trash talk but what I don’t get is this incohert advice he’s spewing. Tips on building a successful startup: “hire a coder from the midwest” WTF?
See, Persai has to be on point. If not, that would make the them worse that Kawasaki. Let’s face it Kawasaki had his fame and is slowly fading (IMO) but he had success and many people still respect him. The Persai guys would be failing right out the gate, but they’d have their professional freedom and that’s all that matters, right?
I’m starting a company for the professional freedom and not much else (trust me we’re riding ourselves into the ground). I want to build great products and dream up solutions. Money would be nice but it takes a back seat to professional happiness.
Guys talking smack about Web 2.0 companies. Persai is in production but once launched will (hopefully) change how people use and manage content. They are in the Bay Area. It’s taking forever to be released. Boring blog. Fits the Web 2.0 profile so well they started backing away from the term.
Good luck. You’re gonna need it.
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