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Would it have been less crappy to shut the company down completely?



Being able to dump in 50k after bad press and saying

"I just added $50K to the bucket and will add more as needed"

makes me cynical I guess. shrugs


It proves that he didn't put every last cent into the company, but that's a pretty high standard considering he's probably already lost millions.


Do you have any idea how many different things Perlman is involved in? If he had put every last cent into on-live our future would be worse off. Google the work he is doing in the wireless networking space(DIDO). Your iPhone 7 is probably going to run it.


When you do that you won't get very far. Not everyone has Elon Musk's golden horseshoe.


Was the company valueless when it was sold? How much did it sell for? Were the proceeds distributed fairly?




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