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This is fascinating, and makes me wonder what would have happened if we'd gone forward with the tail-end-of-the-bubble dotcom dream myself and some of my Australian friends and co-conspirators had gotten to talking dollars with the venture capitalists about.

This paragraph especially rings a bell for me :

and i guess that's one of the main issues here.. along with believing that pyra was a different kind of company, i also never truly believed that the hierarchy of the company existed for any reason other than for show. of course, we needed people to be in charge, and those responsibilities were well handled while i was there, for the most part anyway. but doesn't a true leader consider the votes of the troops to be equal to that of his or her own vote?


Jack Saturn doesn't really ask for his job back, in a seemingly bitter but apparently satirical letter to Ev referencing old problems at Pyra and the whole BloggerDrama.

Metafilter duly notes it, and some highly obnoxious turds take Jack to task, simply because they can, I guess.

Ev comments briefly, and replies at length on the thread.

Jack replies to that, at length.

There's probably some side stuff that I haven't noticed. Other players in the drama (which I do not claim to understand, entirely, but find fascinating) have remained silent thus far. Link me up if you know about it. I just love gossip : one of my many weaknesses. Sue me.


(By the way, I will finish the Mexico story soon. Not as amusing as the first part, perhaps, but possibly instructional.)

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    Rory said

    Have you read Matt's take on it all from February 2001?

    http://a.wholelottanothing.org/more.blah?moreID=1

    Then there's pb's:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20010208104656/http://onfocus.com/pyra.asp

    July 31, 2002 5:16 AM

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    stavrosthewonderchicken said

    No, I hadn't read those. Thanks, Rory!

    July 31, 2002 6:06 AM

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