![]() ![]() There were many other similar products after BoredAt that faced similar fates: juicycampus, collegeacb, likealittle, secret, whisper, and more recently yikyak. Even though there were some positive anonymous discussions around politics, religion, teachers, classes and sensitive important issues best suited for anonymous discussions, the sites all eventually took negative turns that really didn't reflect the overall student bodies at all the amazing campuses we launched to, and we ultimately had to shut the site down. We built out college ambassador programs and launched to hundreds of the biggest schools in the nation to millions of users. ![]() We set up shop in the Bay Area after graduating Columbia in 2006 and raised venture capital led by Redpoint, then proceeded to roll out across the country. We technically invented the status update, and "BoredAt" was growing at a similar rate as " " at the time. We launched to libraries of schools: boredatbutler at columbia, boredatlamont at harvard, boredatgreen at stanford etc. The first was an anonymous social network called BoredAt that I co-founded in 2005 with a college classmate from Columbia while still in school. Would want people to also be steered to some of the value we've added so they may be able to benefit from our process and connections, giving some quick context of my own personal journey, and then ways we try to help! I grew up in the SF Bay Area, went to undergrad on the east coast then moved back to SF where I spent 10 years building both consumer and enterprise startups. I feel obligated to give some context from myself personally here, as I do think we've done a lot of good and I think a lot more good than bad, for anyone gracious enough to be interested to learn more about me and Soma Cap that's visiting here. I can also provide a bunch of alternative positive references from some of our most successful founders and specifics around how we've helped. I invite you and anyone to ping me any time and give me a chance to work as hard as possible for you if I'm falling short, and we recently have built out a 7 person team to do everything we can getting the right resource to the right founder at the right time. But I think they can play a really important role to hold people accountable - I'm still a huge believer in anonymous social content and this is incredibly helpful to me to get better. Having built anonymous social networks myself in 2005 when I was an undergrad, I know people often don't run to anonymous networks to post glowing positive reviews unless someone's gaming the system asking for positive reviews, and things can often get skewed quite negatively fast - in fact that's why we ultimately had to shut down our anonymous networks for colleges. Verified Investor Response: Thanks for the feedback, and taking the time to give your thoughts and let others know that you had a bad experience, I think it's good to try and help founders avoid bad investors and not waste their time. ![]()
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