I don’t make any money, but Kevin Rose is worth $60 million?

Posted in Humour, Spam, Web 2.0 by Elliott Back on August 4th, 2006.

If businessweek is to be believed, Kevin Rose is rich. However, it’s just a load of PR without anything true to it. If you believe that, you might as well believe this:

NY, NY — Kevin Rose, Scrivs, and the gang have nothing on the highly-acclaimed Elliott Back Blog Network. While their fortunes number in the $60,000,000 to $99,000,000,000.99 range, the EBBN regularly brings in a daily revenue of $3,141,592,653,590, a number that coincidentally resembles pi. Amid much mumbling and handwaving, we extracted the following from founding CEO Elliott:

“Budaahhhh boooooooo beeee bipppppipipipippppittty booooaoaaaaaaa baaaarrrgghghhhh”

Venture Capitalists (VCs, ballers, Billy G) are more than welcome to mail payments in appreciation in sealed, anonymous envelopes on the new Gimme-Gimme funding model. Under this new capital plan, investors simply give away their money and hope that their donation is eventually repaid with favors or cash.

Hat tip to 9rules; don’t believe everything you read!

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