Interview with Shawn

"And everything I can't remember, as fucked up as it all may seem...to me, I know it's real".

 

lol I knew something was coming Let's move on ...

 

Hunter S Thompson?

 

hehe, big Staind fan, it came right out.

 

Thanks for the Q/A dude , appreciated, I guess I used all my credits but one last one.

Was it all about the money (honestly) at least at the start or the product, or did it change, this forum is obviously heavily focused on the money for a lot of people but I guess it was never that for you (outwith the forum) but you now benefit from it from your company and seeing as thats the case you can now quite easily say it's about innovation/expression/problem solving and totally not about the $ but if you did what you did and earned a fraction of your income would you be happy/fulfilled?

Only the rich say money does not bring happiness/hummers, what do you say?

 

Nice answers, Shawn.

Your weakness is a harem of women with English accents that you could have all to yourself.

 

Dito.

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I know how the forum started and its a credit to you/your products/your open views that the forum has grown to what it is today seeing as its not heavily censored etc etc, cool, a good interview and an inspiration to many folks here who cut there own living.##Rock on as Anthonycea would say

 

Hmmmm...what about starting up a directory to outdo DMOZ? You've already got a boatload of members who I'm sure would happoly be editors.

 

Well at least we know what kind of fantasies SJI has.

 

Making sushi is a blast if you've never made it before. Doing it on a date would be interesting...considering your hands will be covered in sticky rice...but you have to watch out for the fishy smell.

 

Rofl, you had me at hello

It's funny, this is a powerful forum, and amazing to see how often you see posts regardings creating a new
Pagerank
Dmoz
Search Engine
Directory

I suppose this would be one place I could see it being born and actually grown throughout the net and being done better than before, however Shawn as a general rule prefers to be creative rather than take someone else's think and make it better, there's not as much fun in that.

 

Noppid you just cost me £0.79 on Itunes, thanks, it's been a while.


Edit: Cool to hear you appreciate the Gorillaz, Damon is a cool guy, met him a few times albeit during a period........

How did toots put it? "in common"

 

some of us will never sleep again
dracula...dracula....

 

Next question:

What do you know now that you wish you knew 10 years ago?

 

Q.

Do you feel the rising audience pressure who want to pro-actively partake in something with you due to your large readership as it were?

Does this appeal to your sense of adventure or make you cringe that all people want is for you to take on google or something in an area already covered or do you have plans/ideas to involve the masses and create something new involving the community that has not already been done..without being specific?

Seeing as with an audience this big a sense of adventure could snowball into a worldwide phenomenon with the right idea and backing or do you wish the DP forum just to remain a support vessel for your free/paid products.

 

If you had one wish, what would you wish for?