{"id":1526,"date":"2006-06-12T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/06\/scoble-happy-bill-looking-glum.html"},"modified":"2006-06-12T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T22:23:00","slug":"scoble-happy-bill-looking-glum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1526","title":{"rendered":"Scoble happy &#8211; Bill looking glum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/166012765_4d900906fa.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/166012765_4d900906fa.jpg\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\/><\/a><br \/>Never realized that Bill Gates would be so crestfallen on the news of Scoble leaving.<\/p>\n<p>So Robert could become a millionaire! According to <a href=\"http:\/\/professional.venturewire.com\/exclusives.asp?s=DEALBOOK&amp;sid=HHQLHNHJMHI\">this story<\/a> Podtech was valued at $10m a few months ago and coupled with this story &#8220;<span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Furrier said. Part of the investment is giving Scoble a significant equity stake of the PodTech.net, which received a $5.5 million round of<\/span><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">funding in March. Furrier and employees still own more than 50 percent of the startup, &#8220;<\/span><br \/><a bbc=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/uploaded_images\/gates\" jpg=\"\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" bbc=\"\" border=\"0\" jpg=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/uploaded_images\/gates\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\/><\/a>To me a significant stake has to be a few percent so when Bill gets his cheque book out in a few months Robert could walk out with a few million &#8211; maybe enough to buy a house. No wonder Bill is looking so unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>Great news that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/12\/more-scoble-family-news-challenges-ahead-for-podtech\/\">setting on Maryam<\/a> as well. Well done to Robert &amp; Maryam couldnt happen to a better duo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/scoble-leaving-gates-crestfallen.html\">Thanks to Halley f<\/a>or the BBC link<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"blogger-preserved-comments\">\n<h2>Archived comments<\/h2>\n<p>These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not recorded on the page.<\/p>\n<article>\n<h3>Ellee Seymour<\/h3>\n<p>Original displayed time: 6:13 PM<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to know that marriages can be made in blogsphere. I think my husband would be happy about it too if it made me a millionaire.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never realized that Bill Gates would be so crestfallen on the news of Scoble leaving. So Robert could become a millionaire! According to this story Podtech was valued at $10m a few months ago and coupled with this story &#8220;Furrier said. Part of the investment is giving Scoble a significant equity stake of the PodTech.net, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}