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33 pointsjeffiel15 comments

Reminds me of this (which I built a couple of years ago) - http://zombievirusfund.com/

This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.

Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however).

Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.

Of course it's a shameless publicity stunt and their only goal is to give water to those in need. Good for them for being creative.

their only goal is to give water to those in need.

No. dotben's point is that they have an auxiliary goal of promoting wepay (their company), which is perhaps far more of a driving factor than their support of Charity:Water.

Ah, yes, of course. Sorry. However, still good for them. Doing something different to get exposure and doing something good. Worth learning from I think.

Expect a call from the SEC shortly... ;-)

On a serious note, how much goes to WePay and how much goes to the charity? I didn't see an obvious answer on the website.

We (WePay) charge 3.5% for donations. See https://www.wepay.com/about/fees

Cool thanks for the pointer. Seems legit considering processing costs.

While I can't be sure, I doubt WePay is going to take their typical fee on this, since they're the ones raising the money.

From the page: "Disclaimer: this is not affiliated with WePay."

How much to be CEO?

Who is "we"?

"We" looks like a bunch of Twilio people.

Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style (http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.ht...) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird...

Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate half to Charity: Water. Deal?

This is disingenuous.

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