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It is mind boggling that the young 23yo Chris Russo was smart enough to hack PlentyOfFish but not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies. This morning Markus Frind CEO of PlentyOfFish plans to do and official statement about the events.

Fun Fact: Markus Frind graduated the same year as I did from BCIT in Vancouver. I took Mechanical Design and Mark took Computer Science. Do I regret not taking CS, hmm maybe?

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It is mind boggling that you contact Chris Russo, get his version of the events, publish it receiving page views and ad revenue and then immediately claim he "does not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies" without any demonstration of these claims. Now, you might be right, he might be a compulsive liar, but if he is why are you publishing his version of the events on your site then quietly labeling him crazy on HN without some measure of proof? You do realise such claims are libelous right?

My apologies. I got his version of the events after I read Marcus blog post. My opinion at that point was based only on the information I had a the moment. Then Chris Russo himself emailed me his version of the events which I posted on my blog with his permission. Lesson, don't take sides until you hear both sides of the story, understood.

What does taking CS have to do with building a website like POF?...

A pure statistical reason since I am willing to bet there are way more CS students building websites than Mechanical Designers. But everything is possible, I have also built websites albeit a billion times less successful. To be honest I was just expressing my envy because although we went to the same school Mark build the largest dating site on the world and today is a millionaire and I am not, sniff.

What do you mean "young"? 12 year olds have broken into more sophisticated systems.

Young compared to me for sure

Grumo media looks pretty cool. Maybe you shouldn't regret it? I'm doing a startup in Vancouver as well. Your videos look awesome but are out of my current budget. :(

I just checked your profile, do you also do iPhone apps? We're a cool startup in Vancouver and we're looking for help with our iPhone development, maybe we can chat

We produce explanatory videos for startups like these http://grumomedia.com/category/grumos/ Thanks for checking me up cool Vancouver startup!

Yup, definitely do do that. I'll email you right now. team at summify.com?

Yes, that's it

Thanks dude! I know, I know, startups are inherently strapped for cash but when you raise your first round don't forget me! Give me shout anytime and tell me about your startup, love to meet entrepreneurs ;)

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