Interesting. I can't watch the video right now, but I hope it gets into the details of what they actually do.
http://revenuegrp.com/ is just a few pages of hand-wavey marketing speak. And the fact that "Payday Loans" is one of their key verticals doesn't inspire confidence.
I couldn't get past the point where he's going on about doing lead-gen for payday loans.
I care about creating value far more than I care about making money. In my eyes, $500k earned by creating value is far sweeter than $5m acquired by helping loan sharks.
I'm not sure if this guy had anything interesting to say, but I'm canceling my wife's shopify account based on this interview. I'd recommended them on the basis that they were simple and not horrible... but I don't want a nickel going to this guy.
he can have his payday loans... but he can't have my dollars too.
I'd be grateful if a mod could delete this exchange; it caused some distress to kw_ and certainly didn't add anything to the discussion. I can't seem to find a delete or edit link anymore.
It's really annoying that this horseshit comment continues to get moderated up.
thechangelog jumped to an unreasonable, and uninformed conclusion, that implies pretty horrible things about me. He knew literally nothing about the existing circumstances, yet felt free to accuse me of being the sort of person who would destroy my wife's work on a whim.
It's ridiculous that any intelligent person would up-arrow his attack on my character.
Fuck Alex for jumping to the worst possible conclusion, despite having no reason to do so.
And fuck each and every one of you who upvoted his baseless defamations.
Shopify is a company that handles large amounts of customer data.
They've sponsored a very positively spun interview on monetizing such data by spamming people via SMS, "sweepstakes", promoting payday loans and other activities that I consider deeply unethical (even if legal).
I'd think that if Shopify was a reputable firm, they wouldn't want their name within a mile of this scumbag. Particularly when he's being portrayed in a positive light.
I think every big company has done "unethical" things like this in their past.
Then once they get big, they clean up their image.
It's like Google first few years of adwords they pretty much let anything go, then once they became a big player they cleaned up their image and banned all those ads.
Also, an interesting question: Are you citing the fact that nearly ever big company has done it to basically give it an ethical pass? i.e. It's the cost of doing business?
http://revenuegrp.com/ is just a few pages of hand-wavey marketing speak. And the fact that "Payday Loans" is one of their key verticals doesn't inspire confidence.