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Help Us Buy Yahoo

33 points by jeffiel 15y ago

lpolovets 15y ago
This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.
- dotBen 15y ago
  Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however). Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.
  - gotrythis 15y ago
    Of course it's a shameless publicity stunt and their only goal is to give water to those in need. Good for them for being creative.
    - bravura 15y ago
      their only goal is to give water to those in need. No. dotben's point is that they have an auxiliary goal of promoting wepay (their company), which is perhaps far more of a driving factor than their support of Charity:Water.
      - gotrythis 15y ago
        Ah, yes, of course. Sorry. However, still good for them. Doing something different to get exposure and doing something good. Worth learning from I think.
naner 15y ago
Who is "we"?
- molesy 15y ago
  "We" looks like a bunch of Twilio people. Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style (http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.ht...) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird... Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate half to Charity: Water. Deal?
nostromo 15y ago
Expect a call from the SEC shortly... ;-) On a serious note, how much goes to WePay and how much goes to the charity? I didn't see an obvious answer on the website.
- billclerico 15y ago
  We (WePay) charge 3.5% for donations. See https://www.wepay.com/about/fees https://www.wepay.com/about/fees
  - nostromo 15y ago
    Cool thanks for the pointer. Seems legit considering processing costs.
- RandallBrown 15y ago
  While I can't be sure, I doubt WePay is going to take their typical fee on this, since they're the ones raising the money.
  - pbreit 15y ago
    From the page: "Disclaimer: this is not affiliated with WePay."
spxdcz 15y ago
Reminds me of this (which I built a couple of years ago) - http://zombievirusfund.com/ http://zombievirusfund.com/
wavephorm 15y ago
This is disingenuous.
joshu 15y ago
How much to be CEO?

Help Us Buy Yahoo

33 points by jeffiel 15y ago

lpolovets 15y ago

This is funny, and leveraging the humor to donate to Charity: Water is brilliant. I donated just for that.

dotBen 15y ago
Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however). Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why would anyone want to actually put money in here.
- gotrythis 15y ago
  Of course it's a shameless publicity stunt and their only goal is to give water to those in need. Good for them for being creative.
  - bravura 15y ago
    their only goal is to give water to those in need. No. dotben's point is that they have an auxiliary goal of promoting wepay (their company), which is perhaps far more of a driving factor than their support of Charity:Water.
    - gotrythis 15y ago
      Ah, yes, of course. Sorry. However, still good for them. Doing something different to get exposure and doing something good. Worth learning from I think.

naner 15y ago

Who is "we"?

molesy 15y ago
"We" looks like a bunch of Twilio people. Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style (http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.ht...) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird... Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate half to Charity: Water. Deal?

nostromo 15y ago

Expect a call from the SEC shortly... ;-) On a serious note, how much goes to WePay and how much goes to the charity? I didn't see an obvious answer on the website.

billclerico 15y ago
We (WePay) charge 3.5% for donations. See https://www.wepay.com/about/fees https://www.wepay.com/about/fees
- nostromo 15y ago
  Cool thanks for the pointer. Seems legit considering processing costs.
RandallBrown 15y ago
While I can't be sure, I doubt WePay is going to take their typical fee on this, since they're the ones raising the money.
- pbreit 15y ago
  From the page: "Disclaimer: this is not affiliated with WePay."

spxdcz 15y ago

Reminds me of this (which I built a couple of years ago) - http://zombievirusfund.com/ http://zombievirusfund.com/

wavephorm 15y ago

This is disingenuous.

joshu 15y ago

How much to be CEO?