{"id":564,"date":"2006-06-12T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2006-06-12T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T22:23:00","slug":"scoble-happy-bill-looking-glum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Scoble happy &#8211; Bill looking glum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/166012765_4d900906fa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/166012765_4d900906fa.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/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 this story 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 \/>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 setting on Maryam 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","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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}