Wow. Tough Crowd.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Jason Calacanis was the last speaker of the day on Friday. His presentation was billed as a discussion on spam, SEO's, and the pitiful state of both. It quickly turned into a Mahalo pitch and a demo. The thing is, this was no surprise.But the crowd didn't take kindly to it at all. At one point early in the presentation, Winer jumped up yelling "conference spam" and informed Jason that he didn't appreciate the Mahalo pitch as a Gnomedex presentation.
The push back from Dave and others seemed to take Jason a little off guard, but he pressed on and finished the Mahalo demo. Its a good thing no one had any tomatoes - I really think they would have been thrown.
UPDATE: Winer's first comment, Jason's, and then Winer again.
The fact is, the Mahalo presentation wasn't very "Gnomedex" - it was a pitch. Its odd though that those seen as the greatest thought leaders in our industry aren't leaders.
Labels: gnomedex7, jason calacanis, mahalo
posted by Russell @ 7:24 AM,
2 Comments:
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At 6:03 PM,
John said...
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I saw Calcanis at a SXSW panel a few years ago and he used it as a platform to trash competitors. Very, very unimpressive performance.
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At 8:40 AM,
pswansen said...
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And we're surprised about this why?
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