Mob Wars CEO: Twitter Is Run by Hippies
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- Jason Bailey is the CEO of Super Rewards (http://www.srpoints.com/). They do payment processing and CPA offers for social apps.
- lolplaying (http://lolplaying.com/) made the game 140 Mafia. 140 Mafia implements Super Rewards for virtual goods.
- Jason Bailey made the comment "I don't know who puts hippies in charge of these companies" in reference to Twitter not doing a centralized virtual currency.
- The "CEO" of Mob Wars is Dave Maestri. He didn't say anything about Twitter, from what I can tell. Mob Wars is made by Psycho Monkey LLC
- The "CEO" of Mafia Wars is Mark Pincus. Mafia Wars isn't a "sequel" of Mob Wars, it's a clone. Just like 140 Mafia is a clone of both. Mafia Wars is made by Zynga.
EDIT: Thanks to joshuaxls for corrections.
They're trying to let somebody else come up with a way of monetizing it, and probably hoping for google.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=f...
*If we had 'list of companies not acquired by anyone', or 'list of companies quietly making a reasonable profit', we could compare.
"These companies" being the ones the hippies start. The same ones guys like this don't know how to start either. Let's keep guys like this away from "these companies."
Perhaps "hippies" have the vision to create something that will change the world (a bold claim about twitter... but at least somewhat true already) and "non-hippies" have the pragmatism to make a copycat mmorpg that will rake in a few million bucks but no one will remember next year.
When I think about what spurred the creation of a memorable technology that changed the course of human history, I see vision, not monetization. (Ford => a car for each family, Edison => light in every home, Apple => easy to use computers, Google => bigger, better search)
You see years of great PR, not reality. Most founding myths are the result of gross simplification and made-up mythology which the are designed to be interesting and consumable for mass media. (see Amazon, eBay, YouTube, PayPal etc).
What does it matter? They're certainly not starving (yet). These hippies started up something from scratch, are having an incredibly fun time doing it, getting funded, making waves and headlines and may yet make money. Ev already got loads of cash from selling Blogger before. And wasn't that the same question people asked of Amazon and Google before? How much were they making two years after launch?
Google: 86.4 million in 2001
Then they won't invest in your real deal because they have been burned too many times.
They do not need to rush into a business model, especially with their eye-popping growth.
Is that the growth fueled by celebrity curiosity and spam of all types? Do they really have unlimited runway?
The quality of Twitter is going downhill so fast that I can't help but think it may have already jumped the shark masked by huge amounts of worthless traffic. I know, I know, "you choose who you follow," but at this point I'm getting followed by so many porn bots that blocking them is almost a daily task.