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1/ Fraud Guarantee
Mafia Rave
made a bunch of monologues
and what else might have Russian oligarch money?
https://gawker.com/5427959/alisher-usmanov-the-scary-russian-oligarch-seducing-silicon-valley
Mafia Rave
made a bunch of monologues
and what else might have Russian oligarch money?
https://gawker.com/5427959/alisher-usmanov-the-scary-russian-oligarch-seducing-silicon-valley
2/ So Mark Pincus’ Zynga had Russian oligarch money and at a critical time so did Facebook.
(So did Airbnb, Twitter, Groupon etc “Everybody’s doing it”)
https://gawker.com/5272189/please-pay-no-attention-to-the-scary-russian-oligarch-backing-facebook
(So did Airbnb, Twitter, Groupon etc “Everybody’s doing it”)
https://gawker.com/5272189/please-pay-no-attention-to-the-scary-russian-oligarch-backing-facebook
3/ Here’s Michael Wolff (yes that guy) giving you the story told then about why Yuri Milner invested this Russian Oligarch / Mob money in “social”
“Milner, in part through the lens of his own life’s experience, saw another level of value entirely” https://www.wired.com/2011/10/mf_milner/
“Milner, in part through the lens of his own life’s experience, saw another level of value entirely” https://www.wired.com/2011/10/mf_milner/
4/ He’s seen something others can’t see.
He’s a visionary.
What explains something that doesn’t otherwise make sense?
He’s a visionary.
You can’t believe how far that has gone in the Valley.
Or maybe you can because America and the world have eaten up the story too.
He’s a visionary.
What explains something that doesn’t otherwise make sense?
He’s a visionary.
You can’t believe how far that has gone in the Valley.
Or maybe you can because America and the world have eaten up the story too.
5/ This is part of Jobs’ SValley legacy, that word. It does so much work.
It’s so ugly to say “he took credit for something someone else did” or “he stacked the deck” or “it was a con” or “he is full of shit” or “he’s an information arms dealer.”
People wanna believe.
It’s so ugly to say “he took credit for something someone else did” or “he stacked the deck” or “it was a con” or “he is full of shit” or “he’s an information arms dealer.”
People wanna believe.
6/ It explains away things that make no old-fashioned sense.
And come on, when you’re building the future you can’t do something old-fashioned.
And come on, when you’re building the future you can’t do something old-fashioned.
7/ And if you’re given big prizes and a little headset to talk into you used to only see on Janet Jackson so she could dance, If you have money, you MUST be a visionary.
“When you’re rich, they think you really know”
-Bock / Harnick, Fiddler On the Roof
“When you’re rich, they think you really know”
-Bock / Harnick, Fiddler On the Roof
8/
Do yourself a favour and listen to Zero Mostel sing If I Were A Rich Man.
It always brings me to tears.
Do yourself a favour and listen to Zero Mostel sing If I Were A Rich Man.
It always brings me to tears.
9/ Tevye the milkman is poor. It’s his dream away from the pain of his life.
What better lays out the yearning and the folly of “rich” than this song?
“The most important men in town would come to fawn on me...”
What better lays out the yearning and the folly of “rich” than this song?
“The most important men in town would come to fawn on me...”
10/ It’s a great song. And it lays out the weakness so big you could drive a truck...no a democracy through it.
And for me it makes me feel my Grandpa Moe’s presence every time. He died when I was 11 and he loved this album.
And for me it makes me feel my Grandpa Moe’s presence every time. He died when I was 11 and he loved this album.
11/ I’m about to go to the cemetery to visit another relative who loved me. One who did become a rich man. So a lot on my heart and mind as I think about the Valley, Russia, the Mob and politics.
12/ So Russian mob invests in Zynga+FB and takes no board seat in FB!
“Zynga's first game, Texas Hold'Em Poker, now known as Zynga Poker, was released on Facebook in July 2007. It was the first game Facebook introduced on its social networking platform.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga
“Zynga's first game, Texas Hold'Em Poker, now known as Zynga Poker, was released on Facebook in July 2007. It was the first game Facebook introduced on its social networking platform.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga
13/ “Zynga became the Facebook app developer with the most monthly active users in April 2009, with 40 million people playing their games that month.”
14/ “Farmville had over 80 million players,[27] and on May 18, 2010, Facebook and Zynga entered into a five-year relationship to expand the use of Facebook Credits in Zynga's games“
15/ Usmanov and via Milner/DST didn’t need a Board seat when they invested in Zynga either!
Damn this new overseas money is so generous! No sorry, they are visionary! Because they see how visionary these guys are!! https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-russian-backer-buys-into-zynga-2009-12-16
Damn this new overseas money is so generous! No sorry, they are visionary! Because they see how visionary these guys are!! https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-russian-backer-buys-into-zynga-2009-12-16
16/ 2009
What did Zynga do for Facebook?
Were you on FB then? Do you remember?
Also:
“Zynga says it now has more than 230 million monthly active users playing its games, which offer players the chance to pay real money to buy virtual goods.”
What did Zynga do for Facebook?
Were you on FB then? Do you remember?
Also:
“Zynga says it now has more than 230 million monthly active users playing its games, which offer players the chance to pay real money to buy virtual goods.”
17/ You’ve seen this public mob play since right?
“I don’t need anything from you, I’m here to save you.”
More recently it was worked on America.
“I don’t need a salary.”
But oh how they still get paid. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/13/donald-trump-60-minutes-vacation-salary/93778704/
“I don’t need anything from you, I’m here to save you.”
More recently it was worked on America.
“I don’t need a salary.”
But oh how they still get paid. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/13/donald-trump-60-minutes-vacation-salary/93778704/
