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Now this is uncanny. Several commenters note that Andrew Frame, the narcissistic founder of Ooma, is the spitting image of George Oscar Bluth II, one of the characters in Arrested Development. Frame — a 27-year-old modelizer who persuaded DFJ and Founders Fund to put millions into a phone box that has yet to appear — had better hope the resemblance is merely physical. His alter ego in the cult TV show, who goes by the nickname G.O.B. and rides a Segway, plays an unsuccessful professional magician whose business and personal schemes usually fail. Click for an expanded photo.
[That's the entrepreneur on the left, photographed for Business Week's special on "tech's best young entrepreneurs". On the right, G.O.B., played by the wonderful comic actor, Will Arnett.]
Andrew Frame and G.O.B. from Arrested Development
Now this is uncanny. Several commenters note that Andrew Frame, the narcissistic founder of Ooma, is the spitting image of George Oscar Bluth II, one of the characters in Arrested Development. Frame — a 27-year-old modelizer who persuaded DFJ and Founders Fund to put millions into a phone box that has yet to appear — had better hope the resemblance is merely physical. His alter ego in the cult TV show, who goes by the nickname G.O.B. and rides a Segway, plays an unsuccessful professional magician whose business and personal schemes usually fail. Click for an expanded photo.
[That's the entrepreneur on the left, photographed for Business Week's special on "tech's best young entrepreneurs". On the right, G.O.B., played by the wonderful comic actor, Will Arnett.]
8:31 AM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Nick Denton
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