Entrepreneur and master pitchman Billy Mays dead at 50

A month ago I would have agreed with this statement, but after watching a couple episodes of the "Pitchmen" on the Discovery channel, I found Billy Mays and the whole process of promoting products very relevant to me as a startup founder.

It depends on the person. If a prominent figure in the tech community dies, people might discuss interesting anecdotes and maybe first-hand accounts here. You can't have a hard-and-fast rule like that.

Also, it seems that people in general are a bit oversensitized right now regarding celebrity deaths. On Twitter at least Billy Mays is getting more mentions than Farrah Fawcett did.

http://twist.flaptor.com/?span=168&gram=billy+mays%2C+fa...

I submitted the Wikipedia link so we could take a moment to learn a little from his life's work. After all, this may be the last time most of us hear about Billy Mays.

"It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."

Makes you wonder if the plane accident and the mysterious death hours later are related.

As a hacker, I'd like to believe in cause and effect. Finding out what caused these recent high profile deaths won't make them any less tragic, but may make the world a little less scary.

marketing is related, and you gotta admit the dude could sell anything

yeah, you can see him talking about being on the show http://twitter.com/realbillymays