Author Topic: BBC interview with John Oringer (Read 3355 times)

Xanox · « **on:** August 12, 2013, 09:38 »

How Jon Oringer became Silicon Alley's first billionaire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23469410

hmm ... is it me or the whole article smells of sh-it ?

Pauws99 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2013, 13:09 »

Its you.....of course its a bit of puff but no doubt its a successful business.

cthoman · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2013, 13:31 »

Yeah, it's hard to argue with his success, although is he still a billionaire? I thought the stock went down or is it back up? Either way, he's not hurting.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2013, 13:36 »

Quote from: Xanox on August 12, 2013, 09:38

How Jon Oringer became Silicon Alley's first billionaire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23469410

hmm ... is it me or the whole article smells of sh-it ?

its you, maybe you have the mouth very close to the nose

Xanox · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2013, 22:28 »

thanks

but my point was that the whole article is well crafted propaganda piece of the worst kind.

there's no mention whatsoever of iStock and not a word about the microstock industry, even the word "microstock" isn't present in the article !

to top it off anyone reading this article would get the impression that Oringer actually invented microstock by mistake while trying to sell his photos as a hobby !

this is not journalism, this is rubbish.

Microstock Posts · « **Reply #5 on:** August 13, 2013, 00:12 »

I agree with Xanox. There have been a few articles like this ever since his billionaire status was announced. Bruce Livingstone's story is not as interesting today as he didn't go on to achieve what Jon Oringer achieved.

You're right though the article was more like an advert for ss, which is funny considering the BBC buy most of their stock from TS.