FUCK YEAH TECH PRESS

On David Karp’s sentiment towards his company’s $1.1b exit: Not exactly the kind of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:39 -0400

On David Karp’s sentiment towards his company’s $1.1b exit:

Not exactly the kind of game plan you can end with, “Fuck yeah.”

Remember my old startup Bunchball.com?Ah, those were the...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:29:46 -0400

Remember my old startup Bunchball.com?Ah, those were the days:forbes.com/sites/tristanl…#dodgeball4ever
— Dennis Crowley (@dens) March 22, 2013

His previous company, Bunchball, had served as a prototype version of foursquare a few years earlier and was acquired by Google but failed to achieve traction with a large customer base.

Fuck Yeah Forbes

So @betabeat publishes a call to talk about the emotional strain at startups...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:34:00 -0500

So @betabeat publishes a call to talk about the emotional strain at startups betabeat.com/2013/01/after-… , then this: betabeat.com/2013/02/drunk-… Wow.
— Cody Brown (@CodyBrown) February 18, 2013

Fuck Yeah BetaBeat, regarding After Suicide of Jody Sherman, A Call to Talk About the Emotional Strain of Life at Startups and Drunk, Naked AlphaBoost Founder Matt Monahan Is Currently Trying to Sell His Company

I don’t feel any better about being on this side of techcrunch’s ridiculous facebook...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:49:13 -0500

I don’t feel any better about being on this side of techcrunch’s ridiculous facebook reporting than I did being on the other.
— ⚡♨Jason Prado♨⚡ (@jasonpjason) January 15, 2013

Fuck Yeah TechCrunch, regarding Facebook’s new Graph Search

Fuck Yeah Wired: That gives Path a huge leg up, because you can’t search for any past activity on...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:41:19 -0500

Fuck Yeah Wired:

That gives Path a huge leg up, because you can’t search for any past activity on those social networks.

Not true – Foursquare lets you search your history.

Path really needs that advantage to get bigger. Launched in 2010, the social network hasn’t taken off nearly as well as its competitors. Part of the reason why is that Path limits the number of people you can add as friends and family to 150.

What is this logic I don’t even.

Hey @betabeat, what is this shit? Is it really necessary to mock a father teaching his daughter to...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:30:02 -0500

Hey @betabeat, what is this shit? Is it really necessary to mock a father teaching his daughter to program? bit.ly/QzhfCR
— Hilary Mason (@hmason) October 5, 2012

Fuck Yeah Betabeat

"Mayer may have what it takes to run Yahoo, in other words, but her appointment is also a gimmick...."

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:27:53 -0500

“Mayer may have what it takes to run Yahoo, in other words, but her appointment is also a gimmick. She doesn’t want to talk about being a woman, but being a woman—and a pregnant one at that—probably helped her get the job.”

- Fuck Yeah New York Magazine

That’s a hell of a “Correction” from that headline, Business Insider....

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:41:00 -0500

That’s a hell of a “Correction” from that headline, Business Insider. twitter.com/marcoarment/st…
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) November 21, 2012

Headline: FACEBOOK IS SELLING YOUR SOUL TO MITT ROMNEYCorrection near the bottom: Facebook is not selling your soul to Mitt Romney.
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) November 21, 2012

Fuck Yeah Business Insider

A Thiel fellow who dropped out of an Ivy League college at age 17 spent most of her brief time at...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:59:00 -0400

A Thiel fellow who dropped out of an Ivy League college at age 17 spent most of her brief time at the party hugging her purse and asking for clarification about what, exactly, a whippet was.

- Fuck Yeah Betabeat, because that sort of thing never happens in college.

There hasn’t been a single bitcoin article using “Golding@Home” in a headline?...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:03:00 -0400

There hasn’t been a single bitcoin article using “Golding@Home” in a headline? What the fuck do we even have tech journalists for?
— Karl Pichotta (@kpich) August 8, 2012

Good question.

friendsdontletfriendsusefriends: As if the headline weren’t...

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:22:05 -0400

friendsdontletfriendsusefriends:

As if the headline weren’t offensive enough, you just had to pull the relationship card in the first line.

"As I was heading back to the office, I saw this tweet in my timeline: Google Missed The Boat On..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:00 -0400

“

As I was heading back to the office, I saw this tweet in my timeline:

Google Missed The Boat On Buying Twitter. “Hasn’t Been Interested Since They Committed To Google+” Says Fred Wilson tcrn.ch/JgLVod
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) May 21, 2012

I thought “Hmm, did I really say that?” Fortunately they recorded the entire interview and through a cool feature called snapid, you can go watch the exact one minute sequence where Mike and I discussed this.

As you can see, I never suggested that Google missed the boat on buying Twitter. Google is focused on G+ and Twitter is focused on building its business and staying independent. That’s what is going on and that’s what I said on stage.

”

- quote from AVC, but Fuck Yeah TechCrunch

"If Wife Swap is one of your guilty pleasures (ahem), then you might get a kick out of Founder Swap,..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:52:30 -0400

“If Wife Swap is one of your guilty pleasures (ahem), then you might get a kick out of Founder Swap, a project created by the makers of Scroll Kit, Kate Ray and Cody Brown, which aims to inject fresh talent into startup teams.”

- Fuck Yeah Betabeat

Because no one bothered to check and make sure the .com link to Founder Swap actually worked, when it should be a .biz. If you’re going to lift a story from another publication, at least make sure that you copy it properly.

"When I spoke, a reporter misread my slide and ran a story based on that error. Acquihire !=..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:15:00 -0400

“

When I spoke, a reporter misread my slide and ran a story based on that error.

Acquihire != Signing Bonus

[The SAI reporter] missed the exclamation point. (‘!=’ means ‘not equal’ in computer science jargon.).

”

- Fuck Yeah Silicon Alley Insider (but props to David Lee for setting things straight)

"While Sciarra, who took a six week hiatus from pinning and company matters a few weeks back, is..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:53:00 -0400

“

While Sciarra, who took a six week hiatus from pinning and company matters a few weeks back, is listed on the company’s SEC documents as CEO, it is co-founder who through his actions unofficially took on that role.

Silberman was so convincing that press had already bestowed on him the CEO title, though the truth is that both he and Sciarra co-ran the company until last Friday.

”

- Fuck Yeah TechCrunch

Every time I read tech press talking about tech press, my mind automatically goes to this:...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:45:43 -0400

Every time I read tech press talking about tech press, my mind automatically goes to this: youtube.com/watch?v=LXQMoy…
— Maya Baratz (@mbaratz) April 12, 2012

"Like other social media apps — such as the maligned Girls Around Here app — Timehop aggregates all..."

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:55:00 -0400

“Like other social media apps — such as the maligned Girls Around Here app — Timehop aggregates all the data you’re sharing through other social media networks.”

- Fuck Yeah AllThingsD

Because aggregating your own data and aggregating other people’s data is basically the same thing, right?

Foursquare Adds Bios To Profile Pages, Evolving As A More Self-Contained Social Network

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:22:28 -0400

Foursquare Adds Bios To Profile Pages, Evolving As A More Self-Contained Social Network:

In which a mobile-focused startup adds a text field to their website, and in which the Tech Press vomits 305 buzzwords in response.

"The fact that he’s a technical co-founder puts him at a huge advantage because he..."

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:45:00 -0400

“The fact that he’s a technical co-founder puts him at a huge advantage because he doesn’t have to employ anyone while he works on coding his own product. Once he’s got a prototype, he can look for funding to turn it into a real company.”

- Fuck Yeah Business Insider

This is what happens when you give people a blogging quota businessinsider.com/why-being-a-te…
— Alexia Tsotsis (@alexia) March 30, 2012

Burn it down. twitpic.com/8nfh5a — C. Scott Andreas (@cscotta)...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:12:46 -0500

Burn it down. twitpic.com/8nfh5a
— C. Scott Andreas (@cscotta) February 23, 2012