{"id":2107,"date":"2008-10-17T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T06:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2008-10-17T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T06:24:51","slug":"excellent-alpinist-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/10\/17\/excellent-alpinist-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Alpinist profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out it was getting all its go-juice (you know, money) from a monied Linux geek (and we mean that in the &#8220;geek is the supreme compliment&#8221; vein peculiar to Silicon Valley) who got smacked down hard in the Crash of &#8217;08.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesnaz.com\/2008\/10\/16\/alpinist-decks\/\">From The Snaz<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I understand it, Alpinist\u2019s lifeline was the stock portfolio of investor Marc Ewing, the Bill Gates of Linux. In the last few weeks, that lifeline took a core shot. Marc coiled it up and stuffed it back in his pack, so to speak, and Alpinist was left without a belay.<\/p>\n<p>Which illustrates the problem of not selling out, i.e. making profit a priority. When your magazine covers a niche sport for dweebs with death wishes, it\u2019s probably advisable, at some point, to sell out. But selling out means compromise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great, now that it&#8217;s out of business I want to start subscribing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out it was getting all its go-juice (you know, money) from a monied Linux geek (and we mean that in the &#8220;geek is the supreme compliment&#8221; vein peculiar to Silicon Valley) who got smacked down hard in the Crash&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/10\/17\/excellent-alpinist-profile\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}