Am I missing something? JCarterVA admitted (I think) to being TripleB. Why are people still talking although he is a real person, who sold his company?
buncle said: Am I missing something? JCarterVA admitted (I think) to being TripleB. Why are people still talking although he is a real person, who sold his company?
That wasn't JCarterVA! Notice the h and the fact that JCarterVA hasn't closed out his account to even warrant him creating another handle to make that statement.
"Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment.[1] The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements.[1] An example of this would be the conflict between wanting to smoke and knowing that smoking is unhealthy; a person may try to change their feelings about the odds that they will actually suffer the consequences, or they might add the consonant element that the smoking is worth short term benefits. A general view of cognitive dissonance is when one is biased towards a certain decision even though other factors favour an alternative.[2]
The phrase was coined by Leon Festinger in his 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, which chronicled the followers of a UFO cult as reality clashed with their fervent belief in an impending apocalypse.[3][4] Cognitive dissonance is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. Cognitive disequilibrium is a closely related concept in the cognitive developmental theory of Jean Piaget: the inevitable conflicts a child experiences between current beliefs and new information will lead to disequilibrium, which in turn motivates the child's progress through the various stages of development.
Cognitive dissonance theory warns that people have a bias to seek consonance among their cognitions. According to Festinger, we engage in a process he termed "dissonance reduction", which he said could be achieved in one of three ways: lowering the importance of one of the discordant factors, adding consonant elements, or changing one of the dissonant factors. [5] This bias gives the theory its predictive power, shedding light on otherwise puzzling irrational and even destructive behavior."
I still think OP's a troll, and even if not a troll really doubt that it's Yammer. Yammer was founded by David Sacks who sold PayPoo to eBay and would be driving any decision on what to do with Yammer.
If you read the OP he claims to be making this decision based on the advice of advisors, etc.
I dunno, if I had $225 million, I would probably never turn on a computer again in my life. If everything said was true, it's really not that odd that the OP wouldn't ever visit FW again.
That said, can't the mods determine via IP addresses who the OP really was (assuming he had another moniker on here) - yes, I understand about the likelyhood of a dynamic IP from a big ISP being hard to pin down, but a simple look at the logs would at least turn up a few strong probabilities.
I disagree, this transaction has already been validated by two upstanding members here. Selling a company for $1b is no big deal. I sold one for twice that amount last year and have another one that will sell for at least $5b later this year. If those two suckers.... I mean supporting members desire to invest shoot me pm. I can probably still let you in on the gravy train.
ClaimsGuy said: Thread should be locked and only reopened if OP can proove his story to mods.
delzy on March23 said: Nice troll. You're considering a $225MM offer and go on FW to look for advice? pffftt. This site has really gone rotten recently.It was the first time I read the thread and this is the second where I started at the end and read backwards for a dozen posts. I'm glad you all came to see things my way. Just like you will on my other crazy-sounding ideas and as you mostly have on my crown vic beliefs.
delzy said: delzy on March23 said: Nice troll. You're considering a $225MM offer and go on FW to look for advice? pffftt. This site has really gone rotten recently.It was the first time I read the thread and this is the second where I started at the end and read backwards for a dozen posts. I'm glad you all came to see things my way. Just like you will on my other crazy-sounding ideas and as you mostly have on my crown vic beliefs.and maybe one day you will learn the idea of accepting the reality as is and the conclusion should change based on the best and latest evidence.
This person is good though, there's appear to be some skillful cold reading involved. He, or she, give enough information and let people fill in the rest. Assume of course, this is indeed, a troll attempt, I guess we'll never know. I still don't see anything wrong with the initial premise. Not everyone who gets a windfall would have a team of advisor standing by or process 100% good judgement to not utter it out in a public forum.
Oh, anyone else remember one thread about this FWer (no alias) who posted about getting 8 figure *settlement* and about some "guys" going to jail as the result? Made it sound like a whistle blower suit yet something that big one would hear about it in the news. Another cold reading? Now I wonder if the OP is related.
ZenNUTS said: ... Not everyone who gets a windfall would have a team of advisor standing by or process 100% good judgement to not utter it out in a public forum...The kind of guy who develops a business worth a quarter BILLION doesn't need a team of advisors when it comes time to sell and does have good judgement about laying laundry out in public. The fact that you think someone builds that large and successful of business and lacks those resources says more about you than the troll. I'm not trying to be mean, but come on... I have known a few people who have done it (for example, Jeno Paulucci, who just died by the way) and the one thing those guys aren't is loose lipped around strangers. When Jeno wanted financing and didn't want a banker for a partner, he founded Republic bank. Guys like him don't think like a typically educated worker bee.
By the time your company is worth a couple hundred million, you have been sued scores of times, you have been cheated countless times and you have little need for consultants because you're more experienced than any consultant you can find. Accountants and Lawyers? Sure, but you aren't going to some internet board to ask OP's kind of questions to strangers.
delzy said: ZenNUTS said: ... Not everyone who gets a windfall would have a team of advisor standing by or process 100% good judgement to not utter it out in a public forum...The kind of guy who develops a business worth a quarter BILLION doesn't need a team of advisors when it comes time to sell and does have good judgement about laying laundry out in public. The fact that you think someone builds that large and successful of business and lacks those resources says more about you than the troll. I'm not trying to be mean, but come on... I have known a few people who have done it (for example, Jeno Paulucci, who just died by the way) and the one thing those guys aren't is loose lipped around strangers. When Jeno wanted financing and didn't want a banker for a partner, he founded Republic bank. Guys like him don't think like a typically educated worker bee.
By the time your company is worth a couple hundred million, you have been sued scores of times, you have been cheated countless times and you have little need for consultants because you're more experienced than any consultant you can find. Accountants and Lawyers? Sure, but you aren't going to some internet board to ask OP's kind of questions to strangers.Go read techcrunch these days you no longer need to do all those things to get huge windfalls in a couple years making a company that really doesn't "do much" it's entirely possible.
jkimcpa said: delzy said: ZenNUTS said: ... Not everyone who gets a windfall would have a team of advisor standing by or process 100% good judgement to not utter it out in a public forum...The kind of guy who develops a business worth a quarter BILLION doesn't need a team of advisors when it comes time to sell and does have good judgement about laying laundry out in public. The fact that you think someone builds that large and successful of business and lacks those resources says more about you than the troll. I'm not trying to be mean, but come on... I have known a few people who have done it (for example, Jeno Paulucci, who just died by the way) and the one thing those guys aren't is loose lipped around strangers. When Jeno wanted financing and didn't want a banker for a partner, he founded Republic bank. Guys like him don't think like a typically educated worker bee.
By the time your company is worth a couple hundred million, you have been sued scores of times, you have been cheated countless times and you have little need for consultants because you're more experienced than any consultant you can find. Accountants and Lawyers? Sure, but you aren't going to some internet board to ask OP's kind of questions to strangers.Go read techcrunch these days you need to do all those things to get huge windfalls in a couple years making a company that really doesn't "do much" it's entirely possible.True, but generally the weak and stupid get pushed out of the entity long before it is in a position to be bought out for that kind of money.
Crazytree said: The following posters are suffering from cognitive dissonance:
dshibb EugeneV jerosen joebos MilleniumBuc STEALfromCAGgive2FW Venturion I think you meant:
The following people redded my post copying and pasting the definition of "cognitive dissonance", and because I can't handle criticism and am obsessed with proving OP a troll, I responded in the passive-aggressive manner I've used throughout this thread.
Criticism I can handle. It's blatant stupidity that I have a hard time with... but to that end this thread has taken on some of the attributes of picking on special education students such as yourself... which makes me feel sad.
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Who knew there were so many funny people on FWF? Offering bridges for sale (in two different threads!!) - classic! Telling another FWFer that they have a mental handicap is probably the best though. Wowza!
I think my entire contribution to this thread was to post a quote from Office Space wich the mods deleted (you know to keep this all G rated) and then giving Crazyree red on his posts. I'm not sure how this equates to cognative dissonance, but I haven't read the whole wikipedia article on the topic.
At this point the state of the deal is some quantum superposition of the probability smear between "troll post" and "OP is now under an NDA", and we're unlikely to ever get a resolution.
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