{"id":305,"date":"2006-04-19T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/04\/19\/a-vc-who-didnt-want-to-cash-out\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:00:31","slug":"a-vc-who-didnt-want-to-cash-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/04\/19\/a-vc-who-didnt-want-to-cash-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A VC who didn&#8217;t want to cash out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/04\/18\/magazines\/business2\/startuptype\/\">an interview<\/a> John Battelle did with Toni Schneider in Business 2.0 magazine, where they talked about why Toni has left Yahoo to work at Matt &#8220;WordPress&#8221; Mullenweg&#8217;s Automattic.com. Schneider helped start Oddpost, the Ajax-ified Web-based email service that Yahoo snapped up awhile back, and worked at Yahoo for awhile before deciding he liked the startup game better. Right at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/04\/18\/magazines\/business2\/startuptype\/\">the article<\/a> he says of the Yahoo acquisition of Oddpost: &#8220;The only person who didn&#8217;t want to do the deal was Tim Draper, one of our lead investors. He said, &#8216;You&#8217;re selling too cheap. It&#8217;s too early. You could be the next Microsoft. They&#8217;re stealing this company.'&#8221; See? Not every venture capitalist wants to just cash out at the first sign of a takeover offer  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting quote from an interview John Battelle did with Toni Schneider in Business 2.0 magazine, where they talked about why Toni has left Yahoo to work at Matt &#8220;WordPress&#8221; Mullenweg&#8217;s Automattic.com. Schneider helped start Oddpost, the Ajax-ified Web-based email service that Yahoo snapped up awhile back, and worked at Yahoo for awhile before deciding he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/04\/19\/a-vc-who-didnt-want-to-cash-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A VC who didn&#8217;t want to cash out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}