About a month or so ago Bambi and I did a Vator Box with Marc Pincus the founder of Zynga. In the episode (below) we discussed Smule. Mark *really* liked Smule, and whereas I thought it was a cool idea, I had a few more questions about the business and opportunity than Mark - and I guess I beat them up a teensy-weensy bit.
Here's the episode where we discuss Smule:
Then Vator books Smule's founder Jeff Smith to come on our most recent Vator Box!!! Which, upon learning, gave me a slight grimace ;-) Anyway, Jeff was/is a great sport and we had a lot of fun with him really wanting to disagree with my comments on other companies (to demonstrate that my comments on Smule were obviously nonsensical). Here's the first released episode with Jeff on Heyzap (which Jeff kind of beats up!).
We do put our opinions out there on Vator Box, and we're not always right, but I think it's nice when people engage in the dialogue in a positive way.
Another example of this is Dave Gehring's response to the Vator Box feedback Charlene Li, Bambi and I gave him on his company Famplosion - you can see my write up on that here. Dave and his team made some great enhancements to his site based (at least in some tiny part) on Vator Box feedback.
But thanks to Jeff Smith of Smule for being a good sport - he's a great guy - and I'm starting to think Smule has an even bigger opportunity than I originally thought, if for no other reason than they have the right guy at the top.
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