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Why do you hate Tom and Lemon so much now? What's the root of the problem?

I guess I'm just being immature, I dunno... I got upset that they blocked me from using the site...
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Everpedia's format seems weird to me. Can you sell it to me?

PITCH: I have a page on it - https://www.everipedia.com/mahbod.moghadam/
I tried to have a page on wikipedia - and they wouldn't let me.
if you wanted to make a page for yourself, I bet you could pull it off! it's pretty easy to make pages - make yourself a page! It's fun, it's like having a wikipedia page...
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have you ever considered moving to israel and starting entrepreneurial activities there to "start fresh" ?

ah I love israel!!! israelis are my favorite people, my dad's side of my family lives there. but it is a socialist country so I would rather eat hemlock than do business there.
I want the entire country of Israel to just move to LA so I can kick it with them - that will make me happy, and also the arabs will be happy! LOL - I love israelis, I want to marry an israeli girl for sure...they are so masculine! I love it
also, if all israelis move to LA, their brilliant entrepreneurs can do business unfettered by a SOCIALIST government
GUYS: I talk a lot of shit about capitalism - because I want to change capitalism, IMPROVE capitalism - but socialism is even worse. It perpetuates the evil relationships in society (class/race/gender) just as much as capitalism... I believe this because of the time I spent living in France and in Israel.
I criticize the USA a lot... because I want to improve my country... but it is BY FAR the best country in the world. every other country is, in my opinion, a total piece of shit. it is not an accident that google/fb/the internet all came from the US.. europe/israel/south america/iran/africa/asia... I would not want to live in any of these places, no chance. (especially not as an immigrant)
Israel is a wonderful place, but guess what? It's a racist fuckin country. The way you are treated depends on the color of your skin...the U.S. has racism too, but look at me! My parents came to this country from Iran, they don't speak english, I'm a different color, but I got to go to law school and start a big company... that would NEVER happen in israel... I know from my cousins what it's like being a dark skinned israeli...
that's why I'm trying to get all my people to the US. I would never move to israel I wanna bring israel to ME
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how do u define traction?

I used to say a million users... but secret had 15 million and they all got bored!!
so how about, lets say... a million users, and a SOLID NARRATIVE for why these users will NEVER stop using the site and why you're gonna keep getting lottsssss more just like you got these
(this is for a consumer internet thing, for other stuff it's different/less stringent obviously..)
before you have a million users (not the "Secret way" - sticky users) I suggest you don't even attempt to raise money or anything like that (unless you are an alpha pimp, in which case you can do whatever you want LOL)
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I had no idea Pharrell invested in tech companies? These must've been referrals right? Or did you manage to get their email/manager's email and straight up ask?

Pharrell is quite sophisticated in fact! I believe he set up "Collaborative Fund" (that's what his thingy is called) before Nas had set up "Queensbridge Ventures" (I think we were Nas' 2nd or 3rd tech investment..)
Dude... Pharrell is just the best. He ought to be president of the US, he is the ONE DUDE all of us can agree is the best dude... if I was a girl, my dream would be to get pregnant by pharrell...
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You mentioned giving up to much equity. Looking back what could you have done to prevent that?

I don't think you should raise more than 1.5M seed round - we raised 1.8 I think cause all these celebs wanted to throw down - NOT THE END OF THE WORLD THO, was still very good to have the celebs on board.. ours were actually HELPFUL, whereas fuckin jared leto just threw down on the paleo meal delivery thing, I forgot the name... I don't see how he's gonna be as valuable to them as Nas was to us LOL
but honestly not the end of the world - tom wrote a good essay about the whole thing: http://genius.com/Lemon-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-in-seed-funding-without-knowing-what-we-were-doing-annotated
at least we didn't get jacked by a no-name VC like Box LOL- the deal they gave draper fischer JUVErton was a very JUVEnile decision if you ask me... (haha!)
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would u be down to start a bitcoin/cryptocurrency mining farm with me?

congrats - that's the nerdiest, most beta thing anyone has ever said to me LOL
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