Linden Lab CEO stepping down - Valleywag Comments

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

Davion — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:35:53 PDT

Attention Benchmark Capital: former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta is looking for a CEO position! Perfect fit!

Davion

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

Dweezil — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:38:32 PDT

@scalawag: No, he's right. My great grandmother hid in a hay bale (seriously) while Nazis used pitchforks in a field of hay to try and find people who were hiding. They just missed her, and after working for a terrible family who just happened to be not terrible enough to tell the Nazis she was a Jew she escaped to France. Which was then immediately invaded, ironically, and she immigrated to the United States.

Pretty sure if she was still alive, and I presented her with this proposition--namely, to be a furry or to be found and killed by Nazis--she'd go with the Nazis.

Dweezil

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

ScalaWag — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:45:50 PDT

@matto: Speak for yourself you fucking asshole

ScalaWag

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

matto — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:42:45 PDT

Most of the Jews I know would pick the Holocaust over being compared to furries

matto

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

Dweezil — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:14:08 PDT

@matto: Fursecution! Fursecuter! Furries are no different than anyone else, they are totally normal, you are like a Nazi, and they are Jews... but instead of Jews they like to draw pictures of animals fucking people and people fucking animals and animals fucking animals and slash fictions! It's practically the same thing though, you Nazi bastard.

Dweezil

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

matto — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:20:45 PDT

@yawnster: who wouldn't love to shop for IBM Enterprise Professional Services in an immersive, 3d, virtual fursuit environment?

matto

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yawnster — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:46:44 PDT

i still dont understand what is so fun about second life..

yawnster

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ScalaWag — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:23:20 PDT

Taking a VC is an act of submission. This is only attractive to indecisive, co-dependent individuals who do not know how to turn a profit.

Or those who delude themselves that they do the screwing.

ScalaWag

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

deathbychichi — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:58:50 PDT

The VCs always fire you. Few exceptions. That's what they call leadership, their much-touted extra special double-secret sauce that comes along with their money.

deathbychichi

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

Ted Dziuba — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:28:25 PDT

Didn't Valleywag have an article a while ago about how not to get fired by your VCs?

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Dweezil — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:20:01 PDT

Would anyone like to buy hats for their profile image here on Valleywag? I will take your profile image, open MSPaint and draw a hat of your choice for $4.99 per image. Holiday hats are $3.99. Hats with words are $5.99.

Dweezil

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

matto — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:07:43 PDT

It's going to be tough recruiting a replacement that looks good in a fursuit.

matto