Jason. do I read this correctly? Somebody left a $1,200 job for you? I'm hoping this wasn't a full time job because that is so poverty level. Bring him up to say $1,400 per month?
--- Jason McCabe Calacanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Andrew Baron > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking of Jason, he's most known for: > > Oh boy... I probably shouldn't even respond to > something so libelous. > However, this is so false I've got to correct it. > > > > 1. Stealing the idea and the people from Gizmodo > to make the > > identical knock off- Engagdget > > False. > > I didn't steal the idea because the idea was Peter > Rojas'. Nick Denton > back Peter's idea first in the form of Gizmodo, we > (the weblogs, Inc > team) backed it second in the form of Engadget. > > For background, I offered Peter Rojas equity in > Weblogs, Inc. and he > gladly left his ~$1,200 a month job with Nick Denton > at Gizmodo. Nick > Denton promised Peter equity and never gave it him, > we did. We > invested our own money into Engadget which > quickly--thanks to Peter > and his team--grew to 3x the size of the incumbent > Gizmodo. > > We sold Weblogs, Inc. (and without getting into > exact details) Peter > became a millionaire over night. > > > > 2. Not paying employees fair wages. > > False. > > What are you basing this on? We paid hundreds of > folks at Weblogs, > Inc. per month well over six figures for years. We > paid the best rates > in the blogging business (better than or as good as > Denton depending > on the time). When AOL bought Weblogs, Inc. we hired > around 20-30 > folks full-time. > > > > 3. Trying to steal Amanda from Rocketboom (only > one day after news > > broke) > > False. > > How could we steal her if she left? She was a free > agent and looking > for work. AOL really wanted to hire her so we made > her an offer (a > very nice large offer). She took another large offer > from ABC's. > > Are people not allowed to make offers? Would you > rather talented folks > not get offers when they've achieved success? After > working for you > should Amanda never work again? I'm confused. > > > > 4. Trying to steal top posters from Digg for > Netscape > > False. > > We offered the top posters from digg pay for work > they had previously > not been paid for. We paid ~40 of them to work on > Netscape/Propeller > doing things like putting in high-quality stories, > taking our false > stories and spam, and cleaning up the mess that is > social news > sometimes. It was a really good idea and Propeller > is the second > largest social news site in the world. > > > > 2. Killing Netscape by making it into a Diggclone > and then getting > > fired from AOL > > False. > > Jon Miller the CEO of AOL was fired and I left in > solidarity within 24 > hours. That's how I do.... I'm loyal. I started > working with a fairly > well known venture capital firm with ten days of > that. > > Netscape was being shutdown when folks at AOL asked > me what I'd do > with it. I said I would build an editorialized > version of digg where > the news was fact-checked. We did, it worked. The > only reason they > moved it to it's own domain--from what I've been > told--is that it is > more valuable with a new name (i.e. in terms of a > sale) and that > redirecting Netscape's audience to AOL.com is highly > profitable > because AOL.COM is the most profitable part of the > empire (and social > news sites have a harder time making money). > > > 3. Building a site called Mahalo which is > suffering badly and no one > > likes. > > The 1.5 million uniques who've come in the last 30 > days (our fifth > month) might disagree with you. :-) > > In terms of Veronica you can be sure she has a much > better deal than > the one she had at CNET. You can also be sure she > has much more > resources behind her than ever. > > Good luck with that second show. > > all the best j > > Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
