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ArsDigita Founder Responds to Closing

Posted by michael on from the moral-of-the-story dept.

An anonymous reader sent in: "Net celebrity and ArsDigita founder Eve Andersson has written a brief history of the firm, documenting its downfall from her point of view. Fascinating reading, and yet another example of how a good thing can go so wrong."

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  1. Greenspun's similar comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Eve's story was an interesting read, and it's quite similar to the history posted by Greenspun. To make a long story short, greedy VCs drove an otherwise good company straight into the ground. Greenspun's account of the action has been removed, but a cached copy is at archive.org.

    If you want to know what really happened, I'd say that a combination of the two journals is likely a good start.

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