No VC: Why Techmeme's Gabe Rivera Resists Investors - Bloomberg

posted on 05/12/2012 11:17 #startups #enterpreneurship

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-12-04-no-vc-why-techmemes-gabe-rivera-resists-investors/

“I don’t believe anyone aiming to build the ‘biggest company possible’ could have made something like Techmeme,” said Rivera. “Any such person working on something remotely similar to Techmeme would instead focus on how to reach tens of millions of users as quickly as possible, and as a result, the relevance of the product for a community as focused as Techmeme’s would suffer.”