Kaplan, whose departure from Blippy was first reported by peHUB, says he stepped away from a full-time position with the startup several months ago.
“I’m still involved. I’m on the board. I go into the office every now and then, and I’m a large investor,” Kaplan told Mashable. “I’m very excited about Blippy.”
Still, what would Kaplan’s younger self have written about an exit of this nature? After all, Kaplan was the cynical scribe behind F*ckedcompany, an irreverant website chronicling the troubles of dot-com era companie s from 2000 to 2007. The site gave rise to the book F’d Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts, also penned by Kaplan.
The Guardian wrote the following about F*ckedcompany in 2000:
“Visitors to the site place bets on which companies they believe will be next to fire staff, restructure or ultimately close down, and points are awarded each time the bad news is confirmed. As the rules state, ‘a company is officially ‘f*cked’ when they do something that signals — or attempts to correct — impending doom’, with one point awarded for minor layoffs, and 100 for ‘an all-out corporate slaying’.”
So if F*ckedcompany was still around, would it be soliciting bets on Blippy’s longevity? Let’s look at the evidence.
Blippy has already done one major pivot during its brief life. It’s no longer positioned as a site for sharing your credit car d purchase history, but...
