Business, Life
Well it was just a dream Just a moment ago I think back to the Winter of 2008-2009. SpeakerText was a few months old. I was still living in New York. The city was cold at night. It snowed like 2 feet in one day. Back then, for all intents and purposes, SpeakerText was...
Life, Politics
I grew up in Orange County. I was corn fed on punk rock. When I was 17, I saw Rage Against the Machine at Irvine Meadows. The mosh pit was gigantic. Actually, it started off as two pits. They ultimately merged. There was a fire in the center. I ran against the grain....
Business, Life
This is a post about growing up. My parents are an old school latin couple: My mom (b. 1938) grew up in a small town in Argentina. My dad (b. 1929) grew up bouncing from village to village in the deserts of southern New Mexico. They met at UCLA in the late 1950s and...
Business, Life
When you have no money and you need a car, you get SpeakerCar. M2 sold her last week for $350––less than the price of a new iPhone. For all the nausea and fear that she caused, her passing was an emotional event. This is an ode to SpeakerCar, the ultimate car of the...
Business, Life
My friend Ben Siscovick wrote an interesting blog post today entitled Stop Shitting on Wall Street. There is way too much vehement anti-Wall Street sentiment in the startup community. Not that it is completely without merit – there are tons of valid reasons to...
Business, Life
After seeing the constant pants-jizzing on Twitter by Keith Rabois about Quora, I finally signed up and started using the service. Today I got this question…Matt Mireles, As a CEO, do you find that your mohawk has a positive, negative or no impact on how you are...
