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Was a pump & dump by Casey Neistat. Lacked true popularity and network effects as it turned out people don't want to share unedited, raw footage. Social media is about looking good. So Casey just used his YouTube/influencer popularity at the time to pump metrics and then managed to sell it to CNN. No idea what CNN did with the tech or people but not much later they shut it down entirely.





That’s an extremely unfair characterization. It was an honest attempt to make a product; the product didn’t catch on; CNN acquihired the team.

Are you still in touch with Casey? I’ve watched him for 10+ years now so always fascinating to hear about his work.

You are just describing a regular startup, that’s not a pump & dump which makes it sound like a scam.



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