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Pearl Jam's Dropbox hypocrisy
By Dan Primack April 9, 2014: 3:06 PM ET
FORTUNE -- In 2006, Pearl Jam released a song called World Wide Suicide as the first single from its latest album. It was a personalized tale of rage over the Iraq War, and the U.S. government and media's lack of care for those had been killed in battle. Other songs on the album sounded a similar sentiment, and the band would go on to criticize U.S. involvement in Iraq for years to come. As recently as last November, front-man Eddie Vedder was quoted as saying that "we're still cleaning up the mess that they made all those years ago."
But apparently five months heals all wounds, because today Pearl Jam effectively partnered up with one of the war's architects: Condoleezza Rice.
The pairing comes via Dropbox, the cloud-based file-sharing company whose CEO Drew Houston is such a big Pearl Jam fan that he originally named the company Evenflow (Houston also played in a 90's rock coverband called Angry Flannel). And the feelings have been mutual, with Pearl Jam saying that it hosts its demo tracks via Dropbox's service.
Today, Dropbox announced that Pearl Jam would become an investor in the company. It also announced that Condoleezza Rice will become its fourth board member(alongside Houston, co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and venture capitalist Bryan Schreier). No word yet on how large Pearl Jam's position will be, or the details of Rice's compensation.
Look, I understand that business and politics can make strange bedfellows. But Pearl Jam has spent the better part of a decade slamming the morality of decisions made by people like Rice, whose current day job is to run a consulting firm co-founded by Stephen Hadley, a fellow Iraq hawk within the Bush Administration who eventually would succeed Rice as National Security Advisor. Now Pearl Jam is investing in a company where Rice will be a very important voice (again, one of just four board members).
A fan like Houston is not obligated to abide by all of his favorite band's song lyrics. But for the band itself to so callously disregard them... well, it makes it a bit harder to remain a fan.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/09/pearl-jams-dropbox-hypocrisy/
By Dan Primack April 9, 2014: 3:06 PM ET
FORTUNE -- In 2006, Pearl Jam released a song called World Wide Suicide as the first single from its latest album. It was a personalized tale of rage over the Iraq War, and the U.S. government and media's lack of care for those had been killed in battle. Other songs on the album sounded a similar sentiment, and the band would go on to criticize U.S. involvement in Iraq for years to come. As recently as last November, front-man Eddie Vedder was quoted as saying that "we're still cleaning up the mess that they made all those years ago."
But apparently five months heals all wounds, because today Pearl Jam effectively partnered up with one of the war's architects: Condoleezza Rice.
The pairing comes via Dropbox, the cloud-based file-sharing company whose CEO Drew Houston is such a big Pearl Jam fan that he originally named the company Evenflow (Houston also played in a 90's rock coverband called Angry Flannel). And the feelings have been mutual, with Pearl Jam saying that it hosts its demo tracks via Dropbox's service.
Today, Dropbox announced that Pearl Jam would become an investor in the company. It also announced that Condoleezza Rice will become its fourth board member(alongside Houston, co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and venture capitalist Bryan Schreier). No word yet on how large Pearl Jam's position will be, or the details of Rice's compensation.
Look, I understand that business and politics can make strange bedfellows. But Pearl Jam has spent the better part of a decade slamming the morality of decisions made by people like Rice, whose current day job is to run a consulting firm co-founded by Stephen Hadley, a fellow Iraq hawk within the Bush Administration who eventually would succeed Rice as National Security Advisor. Now Pearl Jam is investing in a company where Rice will be a very important voice (again, one of just four board members).
A fan like Houston is not obligated to abide by all of his favorite band's song lyrics. But for the band itself to so callously disregard them... well, it makes it a bit harder to remain a fan.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/09/pearl-jams-dropbox-hypocrisy/
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Is it just me, or does this part make zero fucking sense??
As recently as last November, front-man Eddie Vedder was quoted as saying that "we're still cleaning up the mess that they made all those years ago."
But apparently five months heals all wounds, because today Pearl Jam effectively partnered up with one of the war's architects: Condoleezza Rice.
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Johhny Ramone was a staunch right-winger... does that mean Eddie shouldnt have been friends? does that mean we should NEVER associate, do business with, or befriend anyone that has differing politics or opinions?
this little article is a perfect example of the currently poisoned politcs of today, its "all or none" so to speak where it is either agree with me in lockstep or fuckoff
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-09/dropboxs-next-chapter-corporate-customers-ipo-condi-rice-and-eddie-vedder
Dropbox's Next Chapter: Corporate Customers, IPO, Condi Rice, and Eddie Vedder
By Brad Stone and Ari Levy April 09, 2014
(here's just the Pearl Jam parts).
Eight years ago, after graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Houston realized there had to be a better way to transport files among devices than thumb drives or e-mail. He hacked together a “magic folder” that remains at the center of Dropbox’s service, recruited Ferdowsi (then an MIT senior), and joined Silicon Valley’s famed Y Combinator startup program. They couldn’t get the Web address Dropbox, so the company was first named Evenflow, after a song by Pearl Jam, Houston’s favorite band.
Meanwhile, Houston says, “the fog of war lifts a little every day” and “if Dropbox were easy to build, everyone would have a credible product.” Last year, he fulfilled one of his youthful dreams, meeting the members of Pearl Jam backstage at a concert in L.A. It turned out they use Dropbox to store and share demo tracks. Now the band has invested in the company. Houston keeps an image of the signed contract in his Dropbox account and pulls it up on his phone. “This is the most roundabout way to get an autograph from Eddie Vedder,” he says.
Wind this thing up.
And did this guy even make an attempt to follow up with Pearl Jam or Dropbox before he wrote this? At least give them an opportunity to clarify or to say go to hell if they choose.
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And why is Pearl Jam "investing" in Drobox? They don't have enough money? How many millions was Eddie worth in that "richest frontmen" article a few months ago? They should invest in making an album more than every 4 years and playing some REAL tours, specifically shows in the Southwest.
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As far as your second point, wealthy people dont get/stay that way by letting their money sit around or giving it all away, they invest so their money can grow.
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IMO, a pretty big score for Dropbox and its investors.
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It is a love of this the music and not a political view.
But nevertheless, this is stupid. So Condi Rice is one member on the dropbox board. That has nothing whatsoever to do with war. I see no conflict here at all.