Mathew's comments - Latest Comments in Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

mathewi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:24:10 -0000

Wow. Thanks for that penetrating comment. You must be a lot of fun at parties.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Snurd Honson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:24:39 -0000

Mathew - line break FAIL

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

mathewi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:43:18 -0000

My pleasure. I should also note that one of the reasons I wrote about
it at all is that I think you have a valid point about Jason and about
Mahalo's traffic. It certainly wasn't meant as a personal attack on
you by any means.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Andrew Baron — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:31:14 -0000

Fair enough, thanks for responding.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

mathewi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:29:16 -0000

It certainly wasn't my intention to be biased, Andrew. You are right
that I only chose one comment to highlight, but there are links to
FriendFeed and to Valleywag where people can find more of the story if
they choose to.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Andrew Baron — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:22:02 -0000

Mathew, thanks for pointing it out but you are being biased with your interpretation of this story, IMO.

Out of everything Ive said on this topic, dozens of comments - you happen to pick out the single only comment that I leave that is not formal and then you left out the first part of my comment where I mention that *this one comment* was "off topic" and had to do with defending my personal self from Jason, but not the topic matter at hand. Pims and Daddies is his language, check out the tweets he was sending before hand, most people were saying that he was acting like a 3year old. I also had people emailing me saying not to worry about Jason, he speaks without thinking things through but he is a good guy.

Almost everything I have had to say on this topic had been formal and academic and the reason why I bring it up is because Im tired of being poked by Jason. He started this, he perpetuates it and now its part of my life. I can choose to ignore it, but instead choose to defend myself, just like Im doing here.

Also, conspicuously, and on the contrary, Jason has had only one formal thing to say recently and you found it. The other 99.9% of his response has been to attack me personally while avoiding the questions about Mahalo.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

MarkDykeman — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:31:22 -0000

Good punchline. Or punchgraph. Whichever.

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Snurd Honson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:14:55 -0000

I guess Andrew's traffic isn't really the issue. He's taking issue with Calacanis presenting as an expert as an advice-giver.

But i would have thought that regardless of how Mahalo is doing, Jason's cash in the bank signifies *something.*

Catfight!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis

Fed — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:58:37 -0000

Baron is upset because Mahalo Daily, which is basically just a marketing vehicle for Mahalo.com, is arguably more popular than his entire business, Rocketboom.

However, he makes a great point when noting that Mahalo is not (yet) a success, but Calacanis acts as if he's over the hump and gives advice to others in a lofty tone on how to achieve. There are so many other entrepreneurs without the same talent for self-promotion with much more relevant advice.