[HN Gopher] Belief of Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer's Ca...
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Belief of Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer's Career. Now He's
Facing Prison
Author : helsinkiandrew
Score : 24 points
Date : 2025-02-08 18:28 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
| helsinkiandrew wrote:
| Free to view:
| https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-05/aliens-de...
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| Only gives a couple paragraphs.
| zafka wrote:
| I was able to read the whole article from the link provided.
| (I did click the accept terms button) - Luckily I do not plan
| to have more children-
| monetus wrote:
| https://archive.ph/ot5Ml
| andrewfromx wrote:
| wow this reminds me a lot of
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekret_Machines:_Book_1_%E2%80...
| The Blink182 guy tom delonge made with a fiction author. The book
| is fiction but the preface seems to say "hint hint nothing here
| is fiction."
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| "Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These
| days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors and
| claiming to be hounded by a Jamaican wire-fraud gang, with a guy
| pretending to be Steven Mnuchin along for the ride."
| RestartKernel wrote:
| > Firmage rose to fame after founding a software company from his
| bedroom in Salt Lake City when he was a teenager, later selling
| it for $24 million to Novell and founding the digital design
| company USWeb in 1995.
|
| https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/02/29/joe-fi...
|
| > USWeb's business model focused on acquisitions of small,
| independent web design firms and their client bases, with the
| company's public stock as payment; in all, it bought more than
| three dozen other companies
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USWeb
|
| The article is paywalled, but the "pioneer" moniker seems to stem
| from this business model?
| metalman wrote:
| WoW! this is a realy realy valuable information. there are people
| who have money and lawyers who will invest in anti gravity and
| THEN sue you.....righty then it seems reasonable to try to
| monitize absolutely anything that fits within the known laws of
| the universe, as long as you get your lawyers, and
| accountant/astrophysisist/banker* to sign off on it. and
| blithering on about aliens and antigravity isn't a liability good
| to know, good to know!
|
| *same persons seem to work in those collected fields
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| These stories used to be so cool to read because they were so
| different from reality. But now reality is stranger than fiction.
| erulabs wrote:
| Mental health is a real killer. It's so sad when people who
| clearly have passion and (initially) wealth and apparently a
| stomach for risk and hard work just can't bring themselves to be
| honest.
|
| The market wants triviality from us. It wants web design
| companies and domain name squatters (his ventures that apparently
| made returns). The brilliant art or game changing technology is
| what our _souls_ desire but man, don't chase the ideal and
| abandon the pragmatic. And certainly don't lie to yourself to get
| there. A joke: the market wants Loom, not Boom.
|
| This is a good article to read if you have a good life but only
| did moderately well in tech. I beat myself up daily for not
| having made more money doing simple obvious stuff, but at least
| I'm not a delusional liar.
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