Toys For The Rich To Cultivate Product Popularity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 22, 2005 @10:48AM from the what's-the-problem-here-exactly? dept.

ChipGuy writes "Newsweek is reporting on a new elitist club called the Silicon Valley 100, an exclusive group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs like Marc Andressen, Esther Dyson, Chris Shipley, and Ross Mayfield. The Schwag Set will get a lot of free stuff which they will either recommend or not, to unsuspecting masses. Dan Gillmor thinks 'it is oddly creepy', and urges people on this list to 'bow out of this exercise entirely.' Om Malik says it ironic that 'the first product being offered is a shitter! What Crap!'"

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LoudClown by Doc+Ruby · 2005-01-22 11:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Marc Andreesen is a clown who is famous for being famous. He was insightful enough to invent the tag (and breaking HTML) when project managing Mosaic at UIUC, so Jim Clark made him the spokesmodel for the Web Bubble. But since then he's done nothing but waste money and yammer nonsense. It's only fitting that he's now notable only for getting free toys.

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