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Phil Kaplan is the guy most associated with Blippy (and with the biggest reputation of the 3 people at Blippy from before Blippy). I'd consider his statement more meaningful than the CEO's. The other two blippy guys are mid-2000s graduates with 1-2 smaller projects to their names.

Phil is non-CEO due to historical accident (I think he was CEO of adbrite still when blippy was launched and maybe it would have looked bad?).

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Whoa, I didn't know until just now that Phil Kaplan was at both AdBrite and Blippy. I think of him as the FuckedCompany guy, so wouldn't have thought he'd be part of something so close to the kinds of things FuckedCompany used to ridicule...

pud is a very smart guy, and I actually think the blippy concept could be successful; I just don't like the implementation.

I was thinking of doing a "sharing your amazon purchases" startup (as a way to give people advice about their own purchases; e.g. if you buy a printer, a laptop, etc., have a single place you can go to with info on your purchases -- stuff like where to get toner, owners manuals, repair services, etc.). Someone mentioned blippy, and I met him in person a few times at Founder Institute.

That's a great idea, actually.

Yeah, I still might build it (a friend of mine from FI was interested in it, but I had to go to war at short notice). It's still not the big project I want to work on though.