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Question: Did Chamath Palihapitiya actually have an impact at Winamp or did he just come in at the end?
Asked by Noah (135.180.32.x) on September 15 2025, 2:03am
Reply on September 15 2025, 2:39am (edited at September 17 2025, 3:46pm):

IIRC he joined the bizdev side well after we were acquired by AOL. If he had an impact it was not a positive one. He would be in the category of people who helped drive it into the ground via making shitty deals and preventing us from doing things we wanted to do (though whether it was a significant impact or it was other people who were ultimately responsible for that, could be debated, and also my memory of it could be wrong, was a long time ago).

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Posted by Noah (135.180.32.x) on September 15 2025, 2:51am:
Thanks for your honest reflection! I recently heard him attribute himself in this video and that was new info for me youtu.be/raIUQP71SBU
Posted by garmin (149.88.104.x) on September 15 2025, 1:30pm:
Chamath is one of the posterboys for the modern charlatan with hubris exceeding their luck, there seem to be a lot of them around.
Posted by Justin on September 15 2025, 2:16pm:
lol such misrepresentation, makes it sound like he was there before AOL acquired us, which is completely untrue. "we were 7 people" uhh no, you weren't there yet, buddy.
Posted by Ruchira (175.157.20.x) on September 19 2025, 4:37pm:
This is new information!
Posted by Josh (159.196.85.x) on September 28 2025, 5:22pm:
If a YouTube video description is "50% off course - link below!", you know what you're in for ;) With that in mind, wouldn't it be better to tell that crowd you worked at AOL, instead of "Winamp" and "ICQ"? Very strange.

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