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Originally Posted by dth123451
2+2 was in a dominant position to capitalize on the poker boom and completely blew it.
dth123451:
What's interesting is that over the years, we've actually have had meetings with other organizations who told us the exact same thing. As an example, I remember one meeting in 2006 where the people we were meeting with told us that 2+2 was sitting on a giant oil well that was just gushing money and with their help we would get a lot of it. But what they wanted to do seemed somewhat unethical to us so we didn't work with them.
I remember another meeting a few years later where we were told that there were a ton of advertisers for this website that we weren't getting and if we would just let them help us get these additional advertisers we would make a lot more money. But when they sent us a sample list of some of the advertisers that they could get, these were all entities that we were either currently working with or who we had already worked with.
And there are a number of other examples I could cite.
Yet despite of our ineptness, and remember that I'm a mathematician and not a business man, 2+2 was successful beyond our wildest dreams. I guess it's too bad that you weren't around to guide us.
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Mason, I'm not really sure how to say this nicely, but your narrative that Democrats have been bad for your business is wholly unsupportable. Your support for Donald Trump makes it close to impossible you aren't a bad person.
But I've never claimed to be a nice person. During our heyday, both David and I would say that we could care less if you liked us or thought that we were nice. But we also said that unless you were that extremely rare poker talent, if you wanted to improve your poker game, then you needed to read and study 2+2 books.
Mason